@CoreyRobin I was thinking of things like this: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/alt.activism/UPzFbn7u_N8 …
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@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 -
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@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 -
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@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 -
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@CoreyRobin True, but tragic style doesn't have to be pose. Some great Marxists have an essentially tragic style: Benjamin, say, or Jameson.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@CoreyRobin It's true that compared to this type of tragic poseur, Cockburn was as delightful as ice cream on a hot day.
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Replying to @CoreyRobin
@CoreyRobin@HeerJeet As an AC intern who saw how the sausage was made, I say: don't assume that everything that bore his byline he wrote!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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