[Slyfox]

[Steve_Seattle]

Man, he is the absolute cliché image of a left-wing academic prick - the rimless glasses, the tousled hair, the red-and-black garb.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Geez! He/she even looks like a freak!

[Brown Deer]

WHAT IS one to make of this morass? Wright seems to know nothing about the history of utopian thought, communities, or cooperatives. He refers to exactly one book in the utopian tradition, Martin Buber’s 1949 Paths in Utopia. Buber’s book closed with a discussion of the kibbutz, a subject that would seem to call out to Wright. After all, the kibbutz is a “real utopia” with a socialist ethos and decades of practice. Are there lessons to be found here? Daniel Gavron’s suggestive book The Kibbutz, subtitled “Awakening from Utopia,” sought to appraise its past and future. Wright says nothing about the kibbutz or the literature on it. Nor does he say much about the “real utopias” in Brazil, Canada, and Spain. He says little about anything. The empirical information he provides is perfunctory at best. His command of Marxism seems limited. His historical reach extends to his own earlier works. His vast theoretical apparatus is jimmy-rigged and empty. The graphs are inane, the writing atrocious. To call this book dull as dish water maligns dish water.
~~ Russell Jacoby, Winter 2011

[DemforBush]

Man, Radar’s really let himself go...

[Mr. K]

thank you for that picture... he certainly looks like an idiot socialist

How do they all manage to have that look?