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…
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
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