It's the difference between the apostasy of, say, the Genoveses and the apostasy of David Horowitz and Peter Collier.
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I dimly recall The Free World Colossus being solid work. He was a serious at the beginning of his career and certainly read Marxist theory, Deutscher (abd Bertrand Russell) thought well of him. He got more and more glib during the Ramparts years, yes.
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This is not of world historical import, but it’s twitter so I’d put it like this: part of this is that Horowitz (and Genovese too) we’re still connected to the “classic” phase of Western Marxism. Horowitz, via Deutscher, is one generation removed from Trotsky. Genovese was one
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of the first US transmitters of Gramsci. There was a weight of life and death struggle that they internalized. A guy like Aponte certainly can’t evoke that. The equivalent lineage—which he very much lacks too—would still be primarily intellectual, eg, to be next generation in an
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