@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 #s
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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 -
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@CoreyRobin But seriously: any serious left politics has to come to terms with the awful waste and loss and pain of the Leninist debacle.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@CoreyRobin Serious scholars can and should debate how many Stalin killed but such debates can seem trivializing in Nation column.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@CoreyRobin Yes, it's important to popularize scholarly debate but AC's tone in 1989 piece (and debates with Hitchens about USSR) too brazen
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