Australian Left Review

Article Title

Margins: Polar Politics

Authors

David Burchell

Abstract

When Mikhail Gorbachev claims to be a socialist in the mould of Willy Brandt and the Swedish SAP (ALR 133, October), we really know Communism is dead. Not that we ought to take Gorbachev's miraculous conversion on the road from the Crimea too seriously In itself; after thirty years or more as a member of the CFSU, his sudden (re)discovery of Western social democracy seemed a little forced.