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Much of the knowledge, and especially that which comes from academia and media, is extremely problematic. It is often too empirical, lacking the ability to provide general explanations of phenomena under study.
Jason Schulman writes in memory of the late socialist activist, his comrade Michael Hirsch.
Zoom study group, based on Hal Draper's "The Myth of Lenin’s “Revolutionary Defeatism” (large extracts in Workers' Liberty 2/1, 2/2, 2/3) and "The ABC of National Liberation Movements" (in Workers' Liberty 2/3). Thursdays 7pm 23 June, 7 July, 14 July 2022
Explaining and debunking the theory and practice of Maoism. Part 1.
Sidney Hook* briefly emblazoned the Marxist heavens like a revolutionary nova, only to end his political career as a menacing black hole, through which neither the illuminating vision of a socialist alternative nor the heat of insurgency's passion would ever more emerge. Unlike, say, Max Shachtman, who virtually lost the capacity to write, when to do so would have meant justifying the ideological repudiation of the work and commitment of a lifetime, Hook is remembered chiefly by the blighted literary landscape with which he cluttered posterity in the wake of his extended moral collapse.