Gracefully translated and generously introduced by Robert Schwartzwald, Daniel Guerin's "The Brown Plague" is a major document of its time. Though it offers a glimpse into a Left political culture that has, today, largely receded from view, the book's significance is far from merely commemorative. In its utopian political commitments and suffused homoerotic tonalities, "The Brown Plague" imagines a future that could, perhaps, be ours as well."--Andrew Parker, coeditor of "Nationalisms and Sexualities