I mean toward the end of his life he decried the New Deal for not being leftist enough. That last sentence above is him stating his understanding of reactionaries from "having been one" so I get the impression he was trying to express regret for his prior beliefs.
We only know of his changes in sentiment because of his private letters. He didn’t announce it to the world afaik. He did, however, in one of the letters, make reference to telling a magazine editor not to publish some of his more vitriolic work anymore.
In short, it doesn’t feel like an economic calculus. Coming out as a socialist is rarely a good grift.
Still had some stunningly bad takes about things like inter-racial marriage, but he mellowed for the most part to something more typical of the period. Marrying a Jewish woman, living in New York for awhile, and having leftist friends went a long way.
Still had some stunningly bad takes about things like inter-racial marriage, but he mellowed for the most part to something more typical of the period. Marrying a Jewish woman,
Looking at the amount of white nationalist uber-chuds pining for Asian waifus or being married to Asian women should tell us that marrying a minority and being a huge racist are not mutually exclusive.
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I mean toward the end of his life he decried the New Deal for not being leftist enough. That last sentence above is him stating his understanding of reactionaries from "having been one" so I get the impression he was trying to express regret for his prior beliefs.
did he literally drop dead after becoming some kind of leftist?
thats the power of the OSS baby
are you saying the OSS killed him?
No I was just making a joke about the ruthlessness of the CIA/OSS
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Pretty much
Redeem? That’s up to you to decide. But he died having thoroughly renounced his past views.
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We only know of his changes in sentiment because of his private letters. He didn’t announce it to the world afaik. He did, however, in one of the letters, make reference to telling a magazine editor not to publish some of his more vitriolic work anymore.
In short, it doesn’t feel like an economic calculus. Coming out as a socialist is rarely a good grift.
Still had some stunningly bad takes about things like inter-racial marriage, but he mellowed for the most part to something more typical of the period. Marrying a Jewish woman, living in New York for awhile, and having leftist friends went a long way.
Looking at the amount of white nationalist uber-chuds pining for Asian waifus or being married to Asian women should tell us that marrying a minority and being a huge racist are not mutually exclusive.
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What were those dated at?
I only ask because he did a full 180 shortly before he died.
tbf that was probably partyl because his wife fucking ditched him for going on about it all the time.
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