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that some of the world's worst despots - Robespierre and Lenin come to
mind - were notably unmaterialistic. However much we deplore materi–
alism, in politics the rhetoric of antimaterialism is usually vacuous or
sinister. At the very least antimaterialism makes civilized debate difficult.
At the worst, antimaterialism has been invoked to launch political
programs that have been downright evil.
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The Decline
of
Historidsm
• Philippe Raynaud:
Feminism and the Ancien Regime
• Robert Alter on Vladimir Nabokov
• Shlomo Avineri:
Rd/ections on Eastern Europe
• Susan Dunn:
Revolutionary Myths in France and America
• Donald Davie:
Three Pastors in Berlin
• Walter Laquer:
The Intellectual Impact oj Communism's Collapse
• Morris Dickstein on Recent American Fiction
• Herbert Gold:
A Blazing Inddent
• Peter Loewenberg:
The Uses oj Anxiety
