<HTML><HTML>In a message dated 4/27/05 7:52:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lbo-talk-request@lbo-talk.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> >In the article that Kagarlitsky reviles, "Renewals," (NLR, New >Series, #1, Jan./Feb., 2000) Perry Anderson writes in a footnote: > >    "It is a matter of logic that there is a third possible reaction >to the turn of the time, that is neither accommodation or >consolation: namely, resignation--in other words, a lucid >recognition of the nature and triumph of the system, without either >adaptation or self deception, but also without any belief in the >chance of an alternative to it. A bitter conclusion of this kind is, >however, rarely articulated as a public position." Is that what footnotes are for? Doug </BLOCKQUOTE> Anderson might have added that we seldom see such a "bitter position" acknowledged in the main text. </HTML>