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Claire Berlinski's avatar

Kotkin would be extremely surprised to be described as a leftist.

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Thomas M Gregg's avatar

Lazy assumption on my part, Claire. I jumped to the conclusion that an apologist for Stalin must be a leftist. But of course, there are other reasons for a historian to whitewash Stalin’s biography. Why bother to write it, indeed, if all you can say is that Stalin was a monster? We knew that! Ah, but a touch of revisionism might spice things up, attract attention, stimulate some chatter.

That said, I accept your correction with such grace as a person with as high an opinion of himself as I have can summon up. Let this be a lesson to me…

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The Angry Demagogue's avatar

The whole "Zionism is racism" UN vote was the culmination of the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist attitude towards Jews. You are correct to put the current "progressive" anti-semitism firmly in that camp.

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Thomas M Gregg's avatar

True. And I guess that makes me an Irish Catholic Zionist. There’s an oxymoron for you. Or maybe not…

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The Angry Demagogue's avatar

You are in good company with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, may his memory be blessed.

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