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Geneva
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posted 30 May 2007 07:07 AM      Profile for Geneva     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
... progressive or reactionary?
don't know what to make of Tariq Ramadan, but Paul Berman gives it a go:
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070604&s=berman060407

[ 31 May 2007: Message edited by: Geneva ]


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jeff house
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posted 30 May 2007 03:11 PM      Profile for jeff house     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's been a while since Paul Berman was progressive.

For me, the Sandinista Revolution is a kind of litmus test. I was in Nicaragua six times, and know that there was a lot of possibility there.

Berman hated it from the first moment. He predicted Stalinism. While sometimes Stalinism does result from a revolutionary situation, it doesn't HAVE to.


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Ken Burch
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posted 30 May 2007 04:53 PM      Profile for Ken Burch     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Berman started as an anarchist, but his often-justifiable suspicion of state power degenerated into a hatred of any alternative to conventional, corrupted bourgeois democracy.
The fact that he was not only critical of the Sandinistas but openly pro-Contra demonstrates this.

Have no illusions that Berman retains any progressive or humane instincts. He joined the other sidea and was well-compensated for doing so.

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