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Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE
Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE recalls an unjustifiably revered and self-deluding historian Historians, as Khrushchev once observed, are dangerous people, but how could this be otherwise when they are entrusted with a power that … Continue reading
False gods by Fergus Downie
False gods FERGUS DOWNIE remembers Soviet attempts to replace Christianity with “scientific” materialism “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must … Continue reading
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Tagged Ernest Gellner, Fergus Downie, Goldman, Lunasharsky, materialism, Nietzsche
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Why the Left is sometimes Right
Why the Left is sometimes Right FERGUS DOWNIE examines the crossovers between supposed ideological enemies In Arthur Koestler’s wartime novel Arrival and Departure, there is a striking scene where the author introduces a prototypically modern Nazi diplomat, who expounds on the intrinsically … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Koestler, Carlyle, Charles Maurras, Fergus Downie, Georges Sorel, Leon Trotsky, Max Weber, Oswald Mosley
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