Literary Nonfiction. Politics. SOCIALISM FOR SKEPTICS (Red Banner Reader #2) is a delightful collection of witty, imaginative and pithy essays that skewer misconceptions about socialism. A zestful introduction to radical politics from the perspective that communism is a great idea that can work. Saddlestapled chapbook.
Clara Fraser (1923-1998) lived her working class politics with style and aplomb, earning the title Grande Dame of Socialism bestowed on her by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She was a founder and leader of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women, and an editor and columnist for the Freedom Socialist newspaper, where her Socialism for Skeptics series first appeared.