My q about late Alexander Cockburn: when a thing is as dead & discredited as Soviet communism, how is it "radical" to uphold it?
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Replying to @davidfrum
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@davidfrum Can you tell me how is this an example of Cockburn upholding Soviet communism?http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/10/06/a-rainbow-over-a-graveyard/ …2 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @CoreyRobin
@CoreyRobin I was thinking of things like this: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/alt.activism/UPzFbn7u_N8 …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @davidfrum
@davidfrum I don't see how that piece "upholds" Soviet communism. It was also written in 1989, when the USSR was not yet dead.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CoreyRobin
@CoreyRobin It maintains the version of the Stalin era propounded by post-Stalin Soviet rulers, in defiance of all serious history1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @davidfrum
@davidfrum It's a debate about the#s, which was quite real, among serious historians like Fitzpatrick (and also UCLA's J. Arch Getty).3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CoreyRobin
@CoreyRobin Part of the problem with the 1989 column is a matter of tone -- a bit too jaunty, no sense of tragedy of even the low#s3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@CoreyRobin The style & the politics were inseparable, as someone (Wolcott?) said. An often bracing and witty writer, but rarely tragic.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@CoreyRobin Jauntiness is partially a British thing. Cf. Terry Eagleton, Bernard Shaw, Amises (father & son). Hitchens.
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