Saturday, August 02, 2014

Privileged Marxist …

… Alexander Cockburn's "A Colossal Wreck" Reviewed by Paul Berman | New Republic. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 Yet other readers began to worry, after a while, that his several mischievous traits pointed in a single direction, which was antipathy for the Jews. This, too, could have been acceptable, so long as he knew when to give it a rest. He enjoyed goading his public, though, and was never any good at calculating the reaction. Even in A Colossal Wreck he can’t help writing, “So now it’s anti-Semitic to attack banks and bond houses?” 
There are plenty like him around today.

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