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I'm amazed that Gladwell didn't have more sense than that. Does he really think that someone who could fall for Communism could understand changing hearts and m
by clock_tower 11y ago
I'm amazed that Gladwell didn't have more sense than that. Does he really think that someone who could fall for Communism could understand changing hearts and minds?
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POUM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POUM)
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoIsn't that essentially an ad hominem?
- clock_tower 11y agoAgainst which party? I don't trust Orwell's judgement -- fighting for POUM, and making the argument above, weren't the only errors he made -- and I don't think Gladwell should have trusted it either. (But then, Gladwell wrote a book called _The World is Flat_ in 2000, and it was about free trade, not fundamentalism; he's not exactly someone who I look to as a paragon of good judgement either.)
- hartpuff 11y agoPOUM was anti-Fascist and anti-Stalinist. If you think it was an error to support such a party in Spain at that time, I'm afraid it says more about your judgement than Orwell's.
- clock_tower 11y agoAnti-Stalinist isn't anti-Communist. (Sorry for the extremely late post, though.)
- griffinmahon 11y agoIn addition to your misreading of Homage to Catalonia, you also misattributed -- the author you're looking for is Thomas Friedman.