I didn't know that as well, but it also doesn't really surprise me. I was talking about this the other day in regards to Lucio Urtubia not agreeing with the methods of Castro and Chavez. I'm not super well read on european leftists yet, but it seems like every time I do dip my toes in the well I find a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to the third world. Urtubia flat out helped fund violent resistance against Franco, so the idea that he'd be against people in the Third World doing so seems wild to me. But then I was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity last summer and she kinda takes a swipe at revolutionaries in a way reminiscent of MLK's White Moderate. I just chalked it up to the translation, but I'm less sure now that I think about it.
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I didn't know that as well, but it also doesn't really surprise me. I was talking about this the other day in regards to Lucio Urtubia not agreeing with the methods of Castro and Chavez. I'm not super well read on european leftists yet, but it seems like every time I do dip my toes in the well I find a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to the third world. Urtubia flat out helped fund violent resistance against Franco, so the idea that he'd be against people in the Third World doing so seems wild to me. But then I was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity last summer and she kinda takes a swipe at revolutionaries in a way reminiscent of MLK's White Moderate. I just chalked it up to the translation, but I'm less sure now that I think about it.
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Philosophize This! did a couple episodes on EoA that I thought was better than the book, tbh.
Episode 106 - Simone De Beauvoir pt. 2 - The Ethics of Ambiguity — Philosophize This!
Episode 107 - The Ethics of Ambiguity — Philosophize This!
The takeaway of it all was good, important even, but I just didn't think the book was that good. YMMV
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