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simon silverdollar
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i read the virtual stoa and harry's place regularly- what other political blogs do people recommend?
owen said:hmmm harry's place eh
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k-punk said:Love the fact that Geras' position now seems to be 'there's still an outside chance that I wasn't completely wrong about Iraq'...
Wrong said:I agree that that's the substance (such as it is) of his position. But that increasingly just serves as something on which to hang his fucking awful writing. The smirking coyness (e.g. the recent post on Afghanistan entitled "Women representatives in... certain countries"), the prissy word choice and phrasing ("An octet of bloggers"?), the careful sprinkling of tweeness ("Wife of the Norm"? fuck off). I'm surprised by how visceral my reaction is, but reading his blog genuinely makes me feel ill.
simon silverdollar said:his political philosophy stuff is pretty great though. especially a journal article he wrote a while back on Marx and justice.
Pearsall said:now there's a contradiction in terms.
how the inheritors of the most murderous ideological tradition in human history can continue to so smugly wrap themselves in the cloak of moral righteousness is beyond me.
simon silverdollar said:Well, there's a distinction to be drawn between Marx's writings, and the political ideology of Marxist-Communism. Marx hardly wrote anything about communism, may be only 30 pages or so (compared to thousands of pages on capitalism). Geras' political philosophy is chiefly interested in Marx's writings, rather than Marxist-Communism.
Pearsall said:now there's a contradiction in terms.
how the inheritors of the most murderous ideological tradition in human history can continue to so smugly wrap themselves in the cloak of moral righteousness is beyond me.