Horizon

'In general, however, the idea that utopian thought is inevitably totalitarian is a myth.'

Hmmm. You can see how the idea becomes commonplace...

'It is precisely the fact that Stalinism is utopia gone sour that distinguishes it from fascism, whatever those who airily lump the two together as "totalitarian" might suppose. '

I suppose when you are a professor of 'cultural theory' you have the time and the license for this kind of redundant hair-splitting and protectionism of one's own pet political fetish.
I'd like to see him review the new Mao book. Five thousands words of elegant variation adding up, I'll wager, to: 'um, at least he meant well.'

Funnily enough Mab, I read Kipling's 'The Prophet and the Country' this evening. A wonderful coincidence that! I reccommend it to you...