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There are too many of these creatures around, these characters who have recently developed an attachment to liberal rights-based discourse, as if it was some kind of advance on the historical materialist problematisation of that discourse. As if, in fact, the entire body of socialist critique has been somehow discredited, revealed as a narrow and dogmatic deviation from the venerable tradition of liberalism, and that on account of one's own imperfect radical past!
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<http://leninology.blogspot.com/2007/02/on-bad-leftists-and-nice-
liberals.html>
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Nicely done.
And, to repeat myself from yesterday...
Is McLemee aware of this critique? If so, what's his response?
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