Hah I'm glad you disagree with him on that. For me, impeccable anti-imperialism is a litmus test for two reasons.
a) because anything else just viscerally disgusts me. And b) because a lack of anti-imperialism shows to me a political worldview that is structurally unsound. If they don't get *that*, I can't trust them about anything else …
Hah I'm glad you disagree with him on that. For me, impeccable anti-imperialism is a litmus test for two reasons.
a) because anything else just viscerally disgusts me. And b) because a lack of anti-imperialism shows to me a political worldview that is structurally unsound. If they don't get *that*, I can't trust them about anything else and I'm probably having better thoughts by myself already than they have. Therefor those thinkers/writers are dismissed from my reading lists.
Not that I'm saying that you have to apply the same standards, though.
Hah I'm glad you disagree with him on that. For me, impeccable anti-imperialism is a litmus test for two reasons.
a) because anything else just viscerally disgusts me. And b) because a lack of anti-imperialism shows to me a political worldview that is structurally unsound. If they don't get *that*, I can't trust them about anything else and I'm probably having better thoughts by myself already than they have. Therefor those thinkers/writers are dismissed from my reading lists.
Not that I'm saying that you have to apply the same standards, though.