A review by whitneyborup
The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr

4.0

His view of communism/Marxism seems a clear product of his time, but the comparison between 1950s communism and democracy/capitalism (what he calls bourgeois society) made sense. I still need to think about this...it reminded me of some of the arguments in Zizek's work, but I'm not ready to articulate why, yet. Just a disavowal of cynicism, I guess.