The quote is from The road from Wigan Pier. The best description of the psychology of Post-modernism is in Mary Renault "Bull from the Sea". Thesus considering Menthesus. Read the whole book, it's beautifully written otherwise the passage is in the last two chapters.
I think he’s worthy of some respect, and quite a bit of scorn. His actions in the war were brutal. He implemented harsh censorship policies and other repressive securitarian measures. He lived more lavishly than necessary. But you can say all that about Lincoln. But...
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...he implemented the greatest healthcare system in the developing world (low bar, but still, #1!), actually managed to protect the state from capital (most Leninists fail), sustained the country through embargo, & ironically oversaw one of the most plausible modern “democracies”
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