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by Paul Berman (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Soft Skull Press (30 Mar 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1932360913
  • ISBN-13: 978-1932360912
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A passionate analysis of the justifications for going to war in the name of democracy. Berman, one of the leading essayists and intellectual historians of the New Left, asks the crucial question of Western democracies today: was the violence-tinged radicalism in American and Europe in 1968 a force for social good or for social ill? Berman, who began his career writing for the "Village Voice" and for "The Nation", but is now a figure of controversy on the Left because of his trenchant criticism of figures like Chomsky, explores the response of the "grown-up" Left to human right abuse around the world and discusses the intellectual evolution of figures as various as Polish dissident Adam Michnik, Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran), Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya (Republic of Fear), and Bernard Kouchner (founder of Doctors Without Borders and former head of the UN mission in Kosovo) to argue that liberals willing to use power to protect human rights are the true heirs of the radical Direct Action principles of 1968, and that the Islamic totalitarian impulse he identified in Terror and Liberalism must be opposed with vigour.

Berman, characterised by the media as a liberal hawk like Michael Ignatieff and Christopher Hitchens, is here deeply reflective, looking back on the history of antitotalitarianism, the missed opportunities, the misconceptions and misunderstandings that have bedevilled the Left as it seeks to oppose injustice around the world.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Idealists, 25 Oct 2005
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This is a superb book and should be read by everyone as a companion to Berman's 'Terror and Liberalism'. If you are interested in the evolution of the 68ers political thinking, of the foreign policy decisions of Germany under the Red-Green coalition, in humanitarian intervention or simply looking for explanations of the positions taken by people such as Dr. Bernard Koucher, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Regis Debray and Joschka Fischer (as most of their recent writings are currently only avaliable in French or German) on totalitarianism and related issues, especially the recent invasion of Iraq to topple the Baathist dictatorship, then you should read this book.

I feel this book could become something of a classic for the left.

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