The Grove Press edition of his essays from the late 50's and 60's has blurbs from both Tom Hayden...and Sidney Hook.
Probably not the same Kluge, but a German leftist film theorist and director is Alexander Kluge. http://www.goethe.de/uk/mon/archiv/akluge.htm http://www.google.com/search?q=kolakowski+human+face
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/a-list/2002-September/020269.html Timothy Garton Ash>...The best answer was given by the arch-chronicler of Soviet terror, Robert Conquest, who said simply that to him the Holocaust feels worse. Rationally, it may be difficult to spell out exactly why it's worse to set about exterminating a whole race rather than a whole class, but the Holocaust does feel worse. The difference also has to do with intentions. Communism was originally a noble, emancipatory ideal, of a better world equally open to all human beings. Nazism never was. But then, the road to hell is - and in this case, actually was - paved with good intentions. ...Yet there is one little semantic wrinkle in Hitchens' work which can usefully be unfolded, to advance the argument. This is his continued insistence on fingering "Stalinism" rather than communism tout court. That distinction could be taken to imply two things: (i) that it might have been significantly better under Trotsky, or even under a longer-lived Lenin, and (ii) that something good might still have come of communism after Stalin's death. The first is of course unprovable. (For what it's worth, Robert Conquest tells me he thinks the Soviet Union might simply have broken up sooner under Trotsky - but is that really what Trotskyists had in mind?) To the second, you might reply: "Well, it nearly did: Dubcek's 'socialism with a human face'." But what triumphed in Prague in 1989 was not 68-style "socialism with a human face", even if Dubcek was given an honoured symbolic place. To be sure, the hope that it might still be "socialism with a human face" was an illusion that helpfully fuelled Gorbachev's willingness to let east European "reformers" go their own way in 1989. But it was an illusion nonetheless. It is one thing to say that communism was = originally a noble ideal. To say that a system of humane communism was ever possible is quite another. I would hold, with Leszek Kolakowski, that democratic communism is like fried snowballs.
-- Michael Pugliese