Re: Re: Terry Eagleton

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On Sat, 18 May 2002 12:55:57 -0700 Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I thought that this essay was excellent.  It made a simple point in a way that people could  understand without attacking their own motives and
behavior.  I wish that more of us had the rhetorical skill exhibited here.


I appreciate Eagleton's felicity with language and ability to turn a phrase. But don't you think that the point is misplaced? I mean, Eagleton conflates historical socialism with the socialism in his head, and then concludes that actually existing socialism somehow would or could have kept a lid on the forces that brought us 9-11. (And that, despite his admission that AES was basically an extravagant barbarity.) Hence, the anti-globalization movement is the world's best defense against OBL etc. I find that hard to believe, whatever the anti-globalization movement's strengths.


Christian