Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century

by Tony Judt

The notion that everything is or else it isn’t—that everything is either one thing or another but cannot be both at the same time, that if something (e.g., torture) is bad then it cannot be dialectically rendered good by virtue of its results: this is and always was an un-Marxist thought and was duly castigated, as you know, as “Revisionism.”