No kidding. It is far from obvious to me why Tariq Ali's analysis would provoke any ire. Though I admit that sometimes I'm just so enthralled by his diction and cadence that I may miss something really, as the thread before calls it, noxious. [I'm speaking here of when I listen to him on Doug's show, not his written analysis. Sometimes I think the latter can be a little sloppy and self indulgent--at least the book length stuff--but overall it doesn't usually piss me off.]
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