Evil Is Often Supposed To Be Without

We Face A Conflict Between Civilisation And Culture, Which Used To Be On The Same Side. Civilisation Means Rational Reflection, Material Wellbeing, Individual Autonomy And Ironic Self-doubt; Culture Means A Form Of Life That Is Customary, Collective, Passionate, Spontaneous, Unreflective And Arational.

Modern Capitalist Nations Are The Fruit Of A History Of Slavery, Genocide, Violence And Exploitation Every Bit As Abhorrent As Mao's China Or Stalin's Soviet Union.

It Is False To Believe That The Sun Revolves Around The Earth, But It Is Not Absurd.

A Truly Common Culture Is Not One In Which We All Think Alike, Or In Which We All Believe That Fairness Is Next To Godliness, But One In Which Everyone Is Allowed To Be In On The Project Of Cooperatively Shaping A Common Way Of Life.

The Most Compelling Confirmation Of Marx's Theory Of History Is Late Capitalist Society. There Is A Sense In Which This Case Is Becoming Truer As Time Passes.