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Summary: homophobic and hateful
Review: This book is homophobic and hateful. There is a reason 60 people want to sell it for a dollar.
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Summary: homophobic and hateful
Review: This book is homophobic and hateful. There is a reason 60 people want to sell it for a dollar.
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Summary: Dishonest
Review: This book is not worth reading because it merely employs the common conservative tactic of equating all progressive or left-wing thought to communism (or really to Stalinism). Just not a valid argument in any way.
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Summary: Oligarchies preaching against Oligarchies
Review: This book shouldn't be dismissed, but at the same time, it reads fairly incoherently.This collection of 5-6 essays varies in quality. There are moments where I feel like Horowitz is making valid points, and other moments wherein I scratch my head and wonder how to make sense of it all. The biggest problem with this book is that it is short on analysis and long on absolutist thinking. The connection that Horowitz draws between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist enterprise and the purported "bankruptcy" of Western liberalism is tenuous, at best. We don't see Horowitz analyze the debate between conservative and liberal Western thought...we read a lot of scathing criticism of the fall of the Marxist enterprise and the collapse of the socialist state, but I'd wager that the majority of Western liberals aren't seeking a socialist state, contrary to the belief of some conservatives and Horowitz. In short, I think this is a book with a ton of potential, and frankly, I'm of the liberal political mindset myself. But, instead of thoughtful analysis of the political spectrum and its implications, we get a lot of absolute claims of the right of the conservative enterprise. This book leaves me cold, not because I disagree with him (though I do), but because Horowitz doesn't make anything resembling a convincing argument. I especially found his chapter, "A Radical Holocaust" to be particularly offensive. You'd have to read it to know why, but his treatment of the issues of class, race, gender, and especially sexual orientation in that chapter come across as at least offensive and at most bigoted. I also cringe at his chapter connecting the bankruptcy of liberal thought and Marxism to Judaism. Horowitz seems incapable of treating people and ideas with the respect they deserve. He's the kid in the class who pretends to know it all, and yet fails to come up with even one coherent argument for his beliefs. For that, I can't recommend this book, unless you're a hard-lined Western conservative who wants to feel self-important in reading this book.
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Summary: Absolutist claims, little balance, analysis sparse.
Review: This book shouldn't be dismissed, but at the same time, it reads fairly incoherently. This collection of 5-6 essays varies in quality. There are moments where I feel like Horowitz is making valid points, and other moments wherein I scratch my head and wonder how to make sense of it all. The biggest problem with this book is that it is short on analysis and long on absolutist thinking. The connection that Horowitz draws between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist enterprise and the purported "bankruptcy" of Western liberalism is tenuous, at best. We don't see Horowitz analyze the debate between conservative and liberal Western thought...we read a lot of scathing criticism of the fall of the Marxist enterprise and the collapse of the socialist state, but I'd wager that the majority of Western liberals aren't seeking a socialist state, contrary to the belief of some conservatives and Horowitz. In short, I think this is a book with a ton of potential, and frankly, I'm of the liberal political mindset myself. But, instead of thoughtful analysis of the political spectrum and its implications, we get a lot of absolute claims of the right of the conservative enterprise. This book leaves me cold, not because I disagree with him (though I do), but because Horowitz doesn't make anything resembling a convincing argument. I especially found his chapter, "A Radical Holocaust" to be particularly offensive. You'd have to read it to know why, but his treatment of the issues of class, race, gender, and especially sexual orientation in that chapter come across as at least offensive and at most bigoted. I also cringe at his chapter connecting the bankruptcy of liberal thought and Marxism to Judaism. Horowitz seems incapable of treating people and ideas with the respect they deserve. He's the kid in the class who pretends to know it all, and yet fails to come up with even one coherent argument for his beliefs. For that, I can't recommend this book, unless you're a hard-lined Western conservative who wants to feel self-important in reading this book.
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Summary: Nobody Knows the Left Better.
Review: This is an essential book for young conservatives. It's slight, distilled and commanding. David Horowitz may well be one of the most underrated writers of our time. I find his prose to be excelsior. His style renders a sober political analysis, like The Politics of Bad Faith, into a page turner. This work is a collection of essays and they are all worth reading. The Marxist roots of today's political correctness is fully investigated and the attempt to substitute the proletariat as the dogs of the world with race, class, and gender is well-developed. Horowitz's essay on AIDS is entitled, "A Radical Holocaust" and it is inspiring. One sees the ways in which the radical, revolutionary idea have sabotaged our public safety. He also does a wonderful job explaining how today's liberals are anti-liberals and are the forces of censure and oppression rather than freedom and liberty. I loved this book and heartily recommend it.
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Summary: Oligarchies preaching against Oligarchies
Review: Wits about! You can take David Horowitz out of the Communist Party, but you can't take the Communist Party out of David Horowitz. The Horror!
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