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Article: Never blame the left: the left is perceived as kind and caring, despite its extensive history of promoting genocide.
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- December 31, 1995
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The Left is perceived as kind and caring, despite its extensive history of promoting genocide.
Mr. Watson, formerly a professor at New York University and now a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, is the author of Politics & Literature in Modern Britain and The Idea of Liberalism (St. Martin's). He is currently completing a history of socialism.
WHEN it comes to handing out blame, it is widely assumed that the Right is wicked and the Left incompetent. Or rather, you sometimes begin to feel, any given policy must have been Right if it was wicked, Left if it was incompetent.
To give an example: I happened recently in Vienna to pass a restaurant that ...