I suppose Gene Genovese, who went from being a Stalinist to a reactionary Catholic, is a good example of horse-shoe theory. More interestingly, I think he illustrates how powerfully the Cold War encouraged binary thinking.
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The thread that connects Genovese's life is his tendency to sentimentalize societies that he saw as alternatives to capitalism, be it the Soviet Union or the slave-owning South. But under-girding that was an overemphasis of just how alternative these societies
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Just as Genovese rejected the view (held by everyone from anarchists to Schactmanites) that the USSR was a system of state capitalism, so he also didn't see the slave south as integrated with American capitalism. That's probably the most vulnerable part of his work.
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We was no longer a Marxist when he wrote those books but a Catholic conservative.
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my own introduction to Genovese was from this excellent podcast episode from @AgeofJacksonPod: https://twitter.com/ageofjacksonpod/status/964549329259130881?s=21 …https://twitter.com/AgeofLincoln/status/964549329259130881 …
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“Eugene Genovese, one of America's greatest historians.” Ummm ... ok. Gonna phrase this as a question. How big is your list?
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I swear some good might have been done for humanity if someone had looked at his brain. How do you explain such a transformation?
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It’d probably only be worth a novella-length article than a book, but a study of what went wrong in Rochester would be fascinating, charting a different left-to-right trajectory than the NY intellectuals
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@karpmj hits on some of the same themes that@stschrader1 wrote about in this 2012 essay: https://brooklynrail.org/2012/12/express/reading-eugene-genovese-in-the-age-of-occupy …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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