Brad’s Reviews > War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century > Status Update
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— Jul 16, 2025 04:21PM
Does not comparison contain the danger of justifying one instance of violence by another, one terror by another, one massacre by another?...The danger is real. But...a moral judgment that does not take the form of a Pharisaic celebration of one's own excellence with respect to the whole of the past...presupposes historical contextualization, and this in turn cannot avoid a comparative moment.
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"Far from being a site where all individuals met freely as sellers and buyers of commodities, the liberal market was for centuries a site of exclusion and dehumanization."
— Jul 20, 2025 11:07PM
Brad
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Having read the section critiquing agricultural collectivization in Ukraine, in which Losurdo argues for its economic overdetermination while alluding to a description by Preobrazhensky of its similarity to colonial primitive accumulation...Verso Books's hostility to publishing Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, as if it were hagiographic, seems even more groundless.
— Jul 19, 2025 05:10PM
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"The sophism consists in comparing utterly heterogeneous magnitudes: a political tradition judged on the basis of a state of emergency in a situation of acute danger is contrasted with another political tradition judged exclusively on the basis of periods of normality, albeit that are fully enjoyed only by a privileged fraction of the total population."
Crucial for the "Western Left" to understand.
— Jul 17, 2025 02:26PM
Crucial for the "Western Left" to understand.
