----- Original Message ----- From: "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com>
[B.]:
Okay, so on the one hand it's lazy reductionism -- and, even worse, "characteristic of bourgeois ideology" [!! - ha] (them's fightin' words in some parts!) to reduce the 20th century to this kind of Manichean (or, Christian, as the author prefers) "totalitarianism versus freedom" schema Arendt paints, according to the author.
And yet Remick quotes, in contradistinction to this, we are also "still faced ... with the choice between socialism and barbarism."
... Which is not lazy, Manichean reductionism.
Huh.
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Yeah, well some people get high by attempting to spread supposedly depressogenic drivel. Such metanarratives of melancholy and thinly veiled futilism waste bandwidth.
As if CR knew the first thing about getting from barbarism to socialism, all the while having the perfect preemptions for all the unintended consequences that would ensue on a planet of 6 billion humans weaponized for annihilation.
As horrible as the current conjuncture is, if barbarism was our lot this listserv would not exist and lots of it's participants would be dead.