'Agocs has written a timely overview of the original 'antifa' cultural movements of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe and the Americas. Alarmed by the rise of Nazism and Italian Fascism, groups and intellectuals ranging from communists to liberals organized as exiles to counter the threat of fascism by promoting 'cultural humanism', based on ideas of the freedom of thought ... Read moreand religion and progressive Enlightenment views. Writers, artists, and intellectuals ranging from Thomas Mann to German communists who had fled to Mexico City published broadsides; organized under the sponsorship of the German Communist Party, the Free Germany movement, and through a variety of activities; and hoped to convey another, better Germany than the country that existed under the Third Reich. ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' M. Deshmukh, Choice 'Agocs has written a timely overview of the original `antifa' cultural movements of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe and the Americas. Alarmed by the rise of Nazism and Italian Fascism, groups and intellectuals ranging from communists to liberals organized as exiles to counter the threat of fascism by promoting `cultural humanism', based on ideas of the freedom of thought and religion and progressive Enlightenment views. Writers, artists, and intellectuals ranging from Thomas Mann to German communists who had fled to Mexico City published broadsides; organized under the sponsorship of the German Communist Party, the Free Germany movement, and through a variety of activities; and hoped to convey another, better Germany than the country that existed under the Third Reich. ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' M. Deshmukh, Choice Show Less