[lbo-talk] Andie reviews Les Misérables

[// ravi]

On Jan 16, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> wrote:
> The common understanding, at least on the left, is that a politically conscious act is one aimed at changing the existing order, not buttressing it, as in the case of Teller and von Braun. While Oppenheimer and other left-wing scientists who contributed to the defeat of the Axis considered they were doing necessary work, I rather doubt they were in this instance under any illusions that they were acting against, rather than on behalf of, their own capitalist governments. When they later spoke out against the Cold War and the use to which their discoveries were being put, they were then acting politically. In providing Soviet intelligence with information about the Manhattan Project, Klaus Fuchs was acting wholly in accord with his political consciousness. To my knowledge, Turing was a patriotic but apolitical Englishman doing his bit for the war effort.
> 

Exactly (including the “to my knowledge” part).

	—ravi