Dylan Matthews
This is probably the strangest post I've ever written: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/26/the-washington-post-picked-its-top-american-communists-wonkblog-begs-to-differ/ …
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@jneeley78@dylanmatt Yeah me either.
Josiah Neeley
Richard Yeselson
Ross Douthat@yeselson @jneeley78 @dylanmatt There was a period in the late '60s/early '70s when pretty much everyone at Harvard was a Maoist.
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@DouthatNYT@jneeley78@dylanmatt Right--I knew a Maoist who was expelled at that time. And, as I think about it, studied w/Putnam! Hadn't -
@yeselson@jneeley78@dylanmatt The Crimson was pro-Khmer Rouge. -
@yeselson@jneeley78@dylanmatt Later, they apologized, saying that the KR's ties to Mao's China had made them assume they must be OK. - View other replies
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@yeselson@jneeley78@dylanmatt "We made certain assumptions about the Khmer Rouge that in retrospect were illusory." http://bit.ly/18rZXzH -
@yeselson@jneeley78@dylanmatt "... it was assumed that the Khmer Rouge's policies and social programs would have affinities with Maoism." - View other replies
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@yeselson@jneeley78@dylanmatt As Yglesias just noted, this was the Nick Lemann era.
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@DouthatNYT@yeselson@dylanmatt The late 60's/early 70's sound really horrible.#Team1990s - View other replies
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@jneeley78@DouthatNYT@dylanmatt Bliss was in it that dawn to be alive! -
@yeselson@jneeley78@dylanmatt I don't think American culture has ever changed so much in such a short period. - View other replies
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Now wishing I had time to write a list of the top ten American fascists: http://wapo.st/1b8V2G5
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@DouthatNYT I can help you with that. - View other replies
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@JonahNRO I think the liberal fascists deserve their own list. - View other replies
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@DouthatNYT Agree. I can help with that list, too. Though, there is some overlap. e.g. Father Coughlin, Marcus Garvey.... - View other replies
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@DouthatNYT@yeselson@jneeley78 I think my favorite from that period was Nick Lemann's defense of the Khmer Rouge: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1975/9/1/cambodia-and-crimson-politics-pbobne-day/ … - View other replies
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@dylanmatt@DouthatNYT@yeselson@jneeley78 But the pro-Khmer Rouge stance was pro-Soviet and anti-Maoist, right? -
@mattyglesias@douthatnyt@yeselson@jneeley78 I mean, China backed the Khmer Rouge when Vietnam invaded, and attacked Vietnam bc of that -
@dylanmatt Oh, sorry, I had that backwards.
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@mattfrost@DouthatNYT Seems like a case of not drawing the right lesson from your previous mistake. -
@jneeley78@mattfrost But where does one turn after the heartbreak of Distributism? -
@DouthatNYT@mattfrost Franco, natch.
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Jonah Goldberg
Matt!
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