The face of the enemy. Absolutely appalling interview with Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm unearthed at the National Review Online's bloggish Corner: IGNATIEFF: In 1934, millions of people are dying in the Soviet experiment. If you had known that, would it have made a difference to you at that time? To your commitment? To being a Communist? HOBSBAWM: This is the sort of academic question to which an answer is simply not possible...I don't actually know that it has any bearing... [Samizdata.net]
A particularly interesting quote from Hobsbawm is, "...the chance of a new world being born in great suffering would still have been worth backing." That sounds exactly like the arguement that the neocons and their supporters (including those on the Samizdata.net site) have been making for holy war in Iraq (and wherever else they can extend it to).
I wonder, when Mr. Dean sees the face of the enemy, is he looking at a picture of Hobsbawm--or a mirror?
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