tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637840.post8412983178606927313..comments2023-10-06T03:58:04.867+01:00Comments on Shuggy's Blog: Totalitarianism then and nowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637840.post-10196656900660260992012-10-17T18:54:12.808+01:002012-10-17T18:54:12.808+01:00They seem to take great pleasure in scornfully ber...<i>They seem to take great pleasure in scornfully berating their former selves</i><br /><br />Quite. (Will be stealing this line, naturally.)Shuggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00298179140317536572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637840.post-42811260373065104022012-10-16T13:30:05.288+01:002012-10-16T13:30:05.288+01:00there's a little too much of the zeal of the c...<i>there's a little too much of the zeal of the converted among the 'anti-totalitarian' faction</i><br /><br />Yep. They seem to take great pleasure in scornfully berating their former selves. And it's an exact mirror of the self-righteousness of the anti-imperialist mob too.The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637840.post-16180337170490130612012-10-06T22:01:00.636+01:002012-10-06T22:01:00.636+01:00Re Kronstadt, I think it goes deeper than that. I&...Re Kronstadt, I think it goes deeper than that. I'll happily throw Kronstadt (and Kiel, and Spartakus) in the face of any Communist you care to introduce me to, but that doesn't point towards anti-Communism of the god-that-failed variety. If these people were discovering just now that Communism was a bad way of realising Marx's historical materialist project, they'd be more than welcome to join the anarchist or Trotskyist group of their choice. What we hear from them is more like "Communism failed, Communists said they were Marxists, therefore Marx was wrong" - which isn't so much intellectual evolution as capitulation.<br /><br />(Beer festival earlier on. Typos avoided, some thought-foggage may have survived.)Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.com