April 13, 2022 By Stephen Gowans Some radical socialists practice a politics that carries over from the days when to be a revolutionary meant supporting the Soviet Union or China. With the Soviet U…
Had no idea John Mearsheimer and Vladimir Pozner were “Anachronist radical socialists”,
?? Mearsheimer and Pozner never supported socialism in the first place.
Also I highly doubt Gowans cares about appealing to liberals, considering his work is extremely critical of liberal positions.
The point of the essay is to critique the socialists that act as if we're still living in the cold war and that Russia and China are still socialist. Things have changed and analysis and strategy have to change as well
The point I'm making is that John Mearsheimer and Vladimir Pozner are respected liberal academics who share the same basic analysis of the situation as the so-called "Anachronist radical socialists" that the author of the piece is railing against, revealing that far from these "mentally ill socialists" going off the deep end, the author is simply further right then the two preeminent liberal scholars on the subject, which undermines his point about changing times
The author fails to recognize that while the old cold war is over, a new one has emerged and while Russia isn't socialist, China certainly is and the old socialist positions still hold weight precisely because the old western Cold War playbook hasn't changed
?? Mearsheimer and Pozner never supported socialism in the first place.
Also I highly doubt Gowans cares about appealing to liberals, considering his work is extremely critical of liberal positions.
The point of the essay is to critique the socialists that act as if we're still living in the cold war and that Russia and China are still socialist. Things have changed and analysis and strategy have to change as well
The point I'm making is that John Mearsheimer and Vladimir Pozner are respected liberal academics who share the same basic analysis of the situation as the so-called "Anachronist radical socialists" that the author of the piece is railing against, revealing that far from these "mentally ill socialists" going off the deep end, the author is simply further right then the two preeminent liberal scholars on the subject, which undermines his point about changing times
The author fails to recognize that while the old cold war is over, a new one has emerged and while Russia isn't socialist, China certainly is and the old socialist positions still hold weight precisely because the old western Cold War playbook hasn't changed