[lbo-talk] Lenin's new book

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Jan 20 08:13:45 PST 2008


On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, an Amazon synopsis was quoted saying:


> http://tinyurl.com/ypjaaz
>
> The Liberal Defense of Murder
> by Richard Seymour


> From Kanan Makiya, one of the chief architects of the US invasion and
> occupation of Iraq, to Bernard Henri-Levy's advocacy of "humanitarian"
> intervention, "The Liberal Defense of Murder" traces the journey of
> these figures from left to right and explores their critical role in the
> creation of the new American empire.

It's kind of besides the point (because he's still a first rank enabler of humanitarian intervention), but didn't BHL go from right to left? He started out in the 1970s as a conservative nouvelle philosophe. From there to founding SOS Racisme in the 1980s seems a move leftwards.

Michael



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