Common Cause by Francis Combes the song weigher Kayo has delivered lectures and

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Common Cause by Francis Combes the song weigher Kayo has delivered lectures andPoetry on the history of utopia, revolution and hope, introduced by Booker Prize winning author John Berger. "Communism," wrote Brecht, "is the simple idea so hard to achieve." Common Cause tells the hard story of this simple idea, from the Garden of Eden to the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Common Cause is a history of the defeated, a book about enthusiasm and illusion, heroes and martyrs, saints and sinners. It is an epic, a