The pure leftist writes: What you lack, Philion and Perrin, whatever good work you have done on the PRC and class struggles there, or Perrin's anarchism, is any understanding, indeed a positive aversion to any grappling with the crimes committed vs. millions of leftists by Leninist parties and regimes.
--I am impressed you can acknowledge anything positive I've done re: China or class struggle, even Cooper can't bring himself to acknowledge as much, it's just cheapshot city over there. But seriously, or more seriously that is, one of my favorite assigned books to students is by Hillel Ticktin on Soviet Socialism...not to mention Carmen Sirianni's WOrkers Control and the Soviet Experience [have you heard of these books and do they meet the true pure socialist test of purity?].
Now, care to acknowledge Turner did a good job picking apart your gods of knowledge all things Cambodia? Is it possible your God Ben Kiernan is not perfect and Turner did a decent job on Cooper and the pro-war tourist Totten's blog of picking apart the faux-numbers from real numbers? Or do numbers not matter for pure leftism?
Or, better yet, care to deal with the topic at hand, namely how nice a job Turner did picking apart the sloppy analogy of 'Rorschascher' to deal with the complexity of the Lancet study?
Steve
Stephen Philion Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN
http://stephenphilion.efoliomn2.com/