A Letter from Paris: The Communists & Racism

I have written in Dissent [in the Summer 1980 issue] about activities of rightist groups in France that are openly racist although they now call that age-old hatred by new and discreet names. They’ve surely had some success with the dissemination of their doctrine; after all, in all countries, or in most, a racist instinct needs merely to be aroused. The right has always flattered that instinct, while the left has fought it, although it has sometimes unwittingly contributed to it. But t...