Impredicative Junkyard

Sunday, October 31, 2004

As a Cold War liberal, he ridiculed the pervasive denial of class tensions and, in a rare attempt at humorous wordplay, suggested that Americans were "rather more successful practitioners of materialism as a working creed than the Communists."
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Niebuhr never changed the basic conception of Marxism that he arrived at in the late 1940s. Communism, he insisted over and over again, was a secularized Hebraic and Christian messianism with a "holy nation" in the Soviet Union. © Cold War Triumphalism, pg 32

And "... a country where it is now an art form to buy a book or see a film without giving your money t a global mega-corporation, something only marginally harder than finding a book or a film that does not insult your intelligence. The World Historical Process culminating [Fukuyama]in Rupert Murdoch, Dreamworks, and Disney?" - from the second essay in the same book, by Bruce Cummings, pg 88.

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