Roger Scruton accurately describing how Twitter Tankies, and much of the Left, view people who do not accept all the standard left-wing shibboleths.pic.twitter.com/usPYHrndW1
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Yes, but student politics in general tends towards high passions and more extreme opinions. Haven't read Scruton's book, but just read a review that claims he portrays Gyorgy Lukacs as 'downright wicked'! Will have to read the book...
Okay, but there are a lot of students, and as a proportion of left activists, they're not insignificant (think Paris 1968). Lukacs - well he was an apologist for Stalin (despite having been imprisoned by Stalin!).
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Lukacs was also a member of Imre Nagy's government in 1956 which was in no way Stalinist. He also narrowly avoided execution after the Soviet invasion.
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Well, he very narrowly avoid execution while living in Moscow. But he was highly dodgy, particularly in his younger years. Involved in getting non-communist professors expelled. Have a read of this: http://www.hungarianreview.com/print/the_captive_mind_of_gyorgy_lukacs …
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Thanks; will have a read of that.
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Also, from the review I mentioned (the Guardian): 'Just like his communist-minded opponents, then, Scruton seems to think exclusively in terms of an embattled “us” versus a homogenous “them”.'
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Is that Poole? If so, bollox. Scruton says book is a provocation, but he goes out of his way to flag up what is good in the works of its subjects. He clearly admires Thomspon, Foucault, Adorno, Sartre - & does his best to make sense of the writings of even those he doesn't admire
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Well, I'm sure there's no conspiracy as such, but Scruton's conservatism resulted in angry letters to his publisher & university department from fellow academics saying he wasn't fit for purpose (which is ridiculous, because he's clearly a perfectly able & respectable academic).
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