Quarrelling Tucson (New Yorker)
On the hundred comments and counting! Most are well-contended, including lots of
the dissents, making me wish to argue back. Some are nasty enough to provide my
original publish a kind of roundabout boost. But who understood that a lot of
conservatives read _The Brand New Yorker_? I really hope they stay customers.
I’ll group my solutions and after-ideas under several subjects which come up
frequently within the thread.
**Marx wasn’t Hitler!** I paired them, within the shorthand of blogging, as
influences on Loughner (he reported “The Communist Manifesto” and “Mein Kampf”)
whose destructive legacies don’t range from the shootings in Tucson. Clearly,
a philosopher of political economy along with a genocidal totalitarian dictator are
not remotely commensurate–I ought to make that obvious. However when hundreds of
huge numbers of people are wiped out underneath the banner of the ism that bears your title
inside a century of the existence, you do not get the philosopher’s free pass. Were
individuals killings the effect of a tragic distortion of Marx? Yes–but, in the
same time, one can’t read Marx’s documents without being conscious of his brutal
inflexibility, his hate of the items he considered humanistic moral cant. Marx
heralded the remorseless wheel …
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