The End of the End of History:
Politics in the Twenty-First Century
by alex hochuli, george hoare, and philip cunliffe
zer0, 208 pages, $19.95
About a decade ago, I would go to a party, get drunk off the kind of alcohol that’s sold in plastic bottles, snort up some dubious research chemicals, and then discover to my horror that I’d just spent the last hour talking to a complete stranger at a high clip about the labor theory of value. I was into politics, which made me a weirdo, and into radical left-wing politics, which made me an embarrassing weirdo to boot. Maybe it would have been better if I were at least some kind of activist, but I wasn’t: I just had weird opinions and talked about them at length. I didn’t care about protesting; I cared about workers’ revolution—which meant I didn’t really have to do anything at all.
