My q about late Alexander Cockburn: when a thing is as dead & discredited as Soviet communism, how is it "radical" to uphold it?
@CoreyRobin True, but tragic style doesn't have to be pose. Some great Marxists have an essentially tragic style: Benjamin, say, or Jameson.
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@HeerJeet Of course! But it has become a pose (probably by a lot of people who read a lot of Benjamin in college).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet And, I might add, a rather pompous and portentous pose at that. -
@CoreyRobin It's true that compared to this type of tragic poseur, Cockburn was as delightful as ice cream on a hot day. - Show replies
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