Fwd: for quotation if you want
From: “Scott McLemee” scott.mclemee@Insidehighered.com Date: February 15, 2007 5:37:50 PM EST To: “Doug Henwood” dhenwood@panix.com Subject: for quotation if you want
I’ve seen some of the discussion so far, but don’t really have much
to say beyond what was in my Crooked Timber posting on Monday. The
Mills quotation there just about clinches it, for me.
If somebody wants to call me a cold-war liberal, that’s illiterate,
but I won’t be surprised. I’ve never understood why any intelligent
person could think Isaiah Berlin is an important thinker. Then again,
I’ve never understood how either liberals or Marxists could ignore
Rosa Luxemberg on freedom of conscience, or Marx himself on freedom
of the press. And yet those things happen, quite a lot. That may have
something to do with the fact that the labels in question don’t mean
as much to me as they once did.