This it is hardly a statement made in ignorance of "basic facts"
cf: Russia's Managed Democracy, Perry Anderson, LRB http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n02/ande01_.html
and more a debatable interpretation (which you have ably debated) than something on which we should heap scorn. No cites from "current, primary sources" in the footnotes, but he does seem to be keeping current on some of the literature anyway. Maybe we can arrange to give him a test or something to see what he actually knows.
> His factual errors are legion.
That seems a bit ad hominem. Maybe you can come up with some specific ones for us to include on the test to see if he's learned from his mistakes.
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