Bad Air!: A Review of “We Unhappy Few” from Endnotes 5

When the present unrealizability of one’s grandiose ambitions is the misery of one’s actuality.

Perry Anderson, in Considerations on Western Marxism, presents the idea that political theorists are constrained in their theorizing by their objective conditions. The reason we don’t find the political theories of Lenin in Marx’s work, for instance, is because Marx did not live at a time when revolutionary vanguardism was possible. This perspective is …