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2/ Yes, this is sane: when you dislike an authors politics, punish yourself by not reading great books.https://twitter.com/JohnFCross/status/1176951818657632256?s=19 …
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3/ I despise the politics of China Mieville, Ken Macleod, and Iain Banks. Those are also three of my favorite authors. Because they're REALLY GOOD WRITERS. What a fool I'd be to abjure their books because of their opinions on policy.
To each their own, but MacLeod's rant in defense of Stalin's atrocities completely destroyed any interest I had in ever reading anything by him. There's "has dumb opinions" bad, and then there's "literally morally worse than a Holocaust denier" bad.
Ok, now I'm going to defend MacLeod. He is (or was?) a Trot, but I don't think he's EVER defended Stalin's atrocities. Link? Cc @amendlocke
Here you go: https://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/search?q=Stalin
> I do not regard Lenin as a mass murderer, any more than I regard Cromwell, William of Orange, Robespierre, Napoleon, Lincoln, Roosevelt or Churchill as mass murderers.
I agree with you there ... but perhaps not with the same moral tone! 
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