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Essential reading for serious labor activists. Foster’s experience is indispensable to present struggles and presents a clear path forward.


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Pages from a Worker Life William Z Foster 9780717802975 Books Reviews

With the exception of the chapters on Russia and the US communist party this book is good and informative. The chapters on Russia sing the praises of Comrade Stalin and they discuss the "engineer wreckers". Foster also talks about the Stalin's rivals (especially Trotsky) and the crimes they committed against the Soviet people. He's referring here to the show trials of the 30s. He also goes on to talk about what an efficient and humane system the gulags were in rehabbing prisoners and building up Russia. The US communist party chapter gives a distorted view of the party's history and certain members of it.
With that said most of the book was interesting, particularly the sections on his life as a sailor. Foster worked many jobs in his life and it's enjoyable reading about jobs one has no experience with and horrifying to read about the conditions back then. The parts on hoboing are also worth reading. Parts of this book are reminiscent of You Can't Win by Jack Black. There are a few humorous parts, such as his passing reference to the sexual perversity of shepherds. If you can ignore the last two chapters, this book is worth reading.
Who the heck is William Z. Foster? I had never heard of the gentleman and my guess is - neither have most of you.
I have recently been acquainted with Mr. Foster through his book, "Pages From a Worker's Life". I have also come to find out that this is not the only book that Mr. Foster has written. He has been quite prolific, and is very, very well known in certain circles.
J. Edgar Hoover, I have no doubt, had a very extensive file on William Z. Foster. Mr. Hoover, I'm sure, has Mr. Foster listed as a top ten American Scumbag of all time. But in reading the biography of the now deceased J. Edgar Hoover, I find that it becomes more difficult determining top American Scumbags as the years roll by. Yesterday's hero may be today scumbag and yesterday scumbag may become one of today's heroes. From what I have read so far on these two men, I am more attracted to Mr. Foster than to Mr. Hoover.
"Pages from a Worker's Life" was great. There is no doubt about it; Mr. Foster was an American Workingman. The man lived quite a life.

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Essential reading for serious labor activists. Foster’s experience is indispensable to present struggles and presents a clear path forward.