tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post824511898688516811..comments2023-10-14T13:18:37.330+01:00Comments on angels in marble: Look here upon this picture and on this,...hatfield girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-54824603885857668112012-10-04T20:32:30.009+01:002012-10-04T20:32:30.009+01:00I'll have o watch the video Elby, before respo...I'll have o watch the video Elby, before responding.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-84018646403643212502012-10-04T20:26:47.227+01:002012-10-04T20:26:47.227+01:00What can we do with these people? They are drunk ...What can we do with these people? They are drunk on words. To speak, for them, is as valid as to do. Of course it isn't, so we can ignore them; or point to their wordy silliness and try to keep them out of our universities etc., but then we have to put up with Hobsbawm-style cries of discrimination, censorship... hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-23204247367860294112012-10-04T15:48:18.626+01:002012-10-04T15:48:18.626+01:00There used to be an excellent lecture on "Can...There used to be an excellent lecture on "Can there be an after Socialism"; sadly it is no longer available, but can be bought or hired (uh?) here<br /><br />http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=135511<br /><br />or seen on video here<br /><br />http://vimeo.com/21613629<br /><br />He tackles explicitly the Left's refusal to take responsibility for their past of mass slaughter. <br />Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-64939925880879097642012-10-04T15:45:21.159+01:002012-10-04T15:45:21.159+01:00Hobsbawm, however fine a historian he nay have bee...Hobsbawm, however fine a historian he nay have been, was to the end prepared to accept the slaughter of millions, had it led to the true revolution. <br /><br />For that alone he should have been publicly excoriated on his death, not the subject of endless hagiographies. Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-76457957584222915812012-10-03T21:42:47.464+01:002012-10-03T21:42:47.464+01:00nicely juxtaposed, HG
I was reading this review t...nicely juxtaposed, HG<br /><br />I was reading <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/17/defence-terror-french-wahnich-review" rel="nofollow">this review </a>the other day<br /><br /><i>Her premise is that dismissive disgust at blood spilt and life lost is an edifying [sic] but overly simplistic and apolitical response to revolution past and present... On her account, the price of the Terror was "a sacred transaction in which the foundation of values required the death of men, in which body and soul had to be committed, and anyone could perish from fear or be overcome by disgust. This in my view is the forgotten price of the Revolution, the buried price of the Terror – a price that is indissociably moral and political at once, and that lies in discomfort, risk and a gamble" ...the reader should approach terror and terrorism without ideological fears and taboos, as a crucial contribution not only to the history of the emancipatory movements but also as a reflection on our own predicament. Do not be afraid of [it]; the fear that prevents you from confronting it is the fear of freedom, of the price one has to pay for freedom.</i><br /><br />what can we do with these people ?Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.com