Disraelia: A Counterfactual History, 1848-2008

[Michael Bailey]

Dave Monroe wrote:
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> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/pages/laqueur_disraelia/
> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/files/2008/04/disraelia_laqueur.pdf
>

I was mostly liking it till the end:

"In terms of Realpolitik as well as moral legitimacy,
six million are bad, an invitation to all kind of calamities;
sixty million are beyond good and evil, other categories apply.
...Or as Marx would have put it in a letter to Moses Hess
(who never finished studying his Hegel):
quantity is becoming a new quality."

sheesh!  like we need to sit at Marx's knee to absorb
the teachings of Metternich...

"What is considered normal behavior in the case of
a state counting sixty million is a moral outrage when done
by a small country."

this paper was promulgated on April 1st...
I hope he's kidding, it's the driving force behind the "Old Lie" again -
thinking that might makes right

"These basic insights of political science and moral philosophy
have unfortunately not yet been fully digested by many in Israel
and outside it."

because they are nauseating?