[lbo-talk] Selective MEMRI

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Mon Nov 10 14:36:06 PST 2003


On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:12:51 -0000, cian <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:


> Talk about self-marginalisation...

The Last Romantic By Tony Judt Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm

Pantheon, 448 pp., $30.00

[2] See, for example, Raphael Samuel, "The Lost World of British Communism" (Part I), New Left Review, No. 154 (November/December 1985), pp. 3–53, where he sketches a marvelous portrait of "an organization under siege,...[maintaining] the simulacrum of a complete society, insulated from alien influences, belligerent towards outsiders, protective of those within"; "a visible church," as Samuel tells it, tracing "an unbroken line of descent from the founding fathers, claiming scriptural precedent for our policies, adopting patristic labels for our anathemas." http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16802

Alas, there was never a part two of the Samuel piece in NLR. One of the best historical essays they've ever run.

-- Michael Pugliese



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