As a communist woman once told me in Greece: "Even Trotskyists beat their wives." To believe that an ideology automatically turns a man into a decent human being is, well, naive.
j.
Miles Jackson wrote:
> Jesse Lemisch wrote:
>
>>
>> When will Yoshie read the book, and determine that Bettina was three --
>> three years old -- when Herbert began playing "choo-choo with her? Of
>> course it would be paranoia to talk about power differences betwen an
>> adult
>> male and a three year old female child. Right?
>>
>
> The point of the research that Yoshie cited doesn't seem to be getting
> through. You simply accept that "Herbert began playing choo-choo"
> with her at age 3 because she had a vivid memory of that as an adult.
> What we know is that she has a vivid memory account; we can't say with
> any certainty what Herbert did or didn't do to her solely on the basis
> of this memory account. Your faith in the accuracy of human memory is
> unwarranted. --And I should stress that this is a claim based on a
> veritable mountain of research on memory. It is not, as you falsely
> suggest, a brazen ideological ploy to subjugate women.
>
> Miles
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