more from Franz Neumann

First, although Neumann is, as I said, Marxist like whoa and not always particularly nuanced in his analysis, I want to single out this passage as the point where I said, Yes. I like this man. Because it's such a relief, after one has been wading through Nazi ideology, to get a passage that combines common sense with common decency--and in fact insists that both should be common:

Hardly any other ideological element is held in such profound contempt in our civilization as international law...