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		readthenotes1 on April 13, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Commi... Different take: A solid accusation of being a commie is just the cover that Lem needed to stay out of trouble back home in Poland.

notahacker on April 13, 2025 [–]

That might have been a more interesting hypothesis about motivation if Philip K Dick was denouncing Lem as a communist propaganda on stage at a convention rather than in a private letter to the FBI

readthenotes1 on April 14, 2025 | [–]

Ah, but with all the moles, perhaps PKD was thinking a private letter to the FBI was a public letter to the KGB

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