“Everyone has a natural right to be stupid, but beyond a certain point it becomes an intolerable privilege.” -- Leon Trotsky to Dwight MacDonald, but applicable always, especially today.
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Trotsky would have ruled twitter, btw.
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Trotsky regarding James Burnham questioning central tenets of 1930s Marxism: “Burnham does not recognize the dialectic, but the dialectic recognizes Burnham.”
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Replying to @HartmanAndrew
There's an essay to be written about how Burnham when he became a conservative embraced the dialectical thinking that he had rejected when he was a Marxist.
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This is one of the arguments I make in the chapter I am currently writing.
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Replying to @HartmanAndrew
You're beating me to the punch!
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