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Islam in the big picture : Comments
By Syd Hickman, published 15/12/2015Tony Abbott's call for a reformation within Islam demonstrates his lack of historical comprehension.
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About a hundred years ago my father lived in an anarchist commune in northern Manchuria. I have been connected with the humanist anarchists in Brisbane. My father’s brother was a Bolshevik arrested by the czarist police. After 4 years of Lenin he came to the US in 1921 completely cured of Bolshevism and was most happy to be a loyal American. At the age of 98 he was in his bedroom in full dress ready to go a formal affair. He fell back on the bed dead but dressed and ready to go.
When I was in university there was a movement on campus to free Willie McGee, a black man, supposedly wrongly accused of raping a white woman. The movement really didn’t give a damn about Willie McGee. They were recruiting for the CPUSA.
I have found the most useful commentary on Utopian visions to be Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies” and Talmon’s “The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy.”