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October 3, 2012
Eric Hobsbawm
His principal and most significant characteristic, however, was an intellectual dishonesty characteristic of the age in which he grew to maturity.He made the choice for Soviet Communism, for perhaps understandable personal reasons, at 14, and remained true to his choice for 81 years, long after there ceased being any possible excuse for doing so. At least no one could accuse him of being a turncoat: he supported a radical form of evil from his early adolescence to his late senescence. -- Last of the Sentimental Stalinists by Theodore Dalrymple - City Journal
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Drive him quickly, to his tomb.
Posted by: Jaques at October 3, 2012 11:23 AM