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His denials of the evils of eastern block communism are unforgivable imo. He lionized Stalin until the day he died.
by robk 6y ago
His denials of the evils of eastern block communism are unforgivable imo. He lionized Stalin until the day he died.
- naravara 6y agoThat's a very facile take on a complex thinker: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/17/eric-hobsbawm-mi5-communism-stalin-historian-private-papers https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/17/eric-hobsbawm-...
- bitwize 6y agoAnd yet, had he been accused of supporting, say, Mussolini, or had he a lifelong fondness for rightist nationalism, he would have been milkshake-ducked into irrelevance today. Nuance, per Marcuse, is something we can only afford for the left.
- naravara 6y ago>And yet, had he been accused of supporting, say, Mussolini, or had he a lifelong fondness for rightist nationalism, he would have been milkshake-ducked into irrelevance today. Heidegger would like a word
- robk 6y agoI find it hard to take any critique of socialism seriously when it's from The Guardian.