Writing about Genovese today. Definitely going to include this Leo Ribuffo quote in the book. “I liked to tease Gene that he had always hated liberalism more than he loved socialism.”
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Or his instincts were always authoritarian, and this was line of continuity from being kicked out of the CP for being an ultra-Stalinist to embracing what was Catholic integralism before the term became fashionable.
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The authoritarianism, Roedigger argues, is a byproduct of seeing the only alternative to capitalism in state systems (Confederacy, USSR) & rejecting possibility of a third camp.
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