Gérard Genette's Bio

Political viewsFull disclosure: I was a dedicated member of the Communist Party and wept upon hearing of the death of that homicidal dictator Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953. I've been told I was a bit of a pest with all that Communist dogma, harassing people to sign petitions and trying to wrangle people into political meetings.

In short, I was a believer—also known as a Communist militant. What finally turned me off to Stalin? Well, it wasn't his gulags, purges, massacres, the famine he caused, or the 1.5 million people he murdered. It was when those darn Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest.

Never one to be apolitical, I then joined a little organization subtly called

Socialisme ou Barbarie (Socialism or Barbarism), whose basic premise was hating on bureaucracy and the evils of capitalism and supporting workers fighting the good fight.