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The irony of today is that these two thinkers, in their struggle against the Marxist left of the mid-twentieth century, relied on some of the same underlying assumptions as Marxism itself: that politics is a matter of one simple truth, that the state will eventually cease to matter, and that a vanguard of intellectuals is needed to bring about a utopia that can be known in advance. The paradoxical result is a Republican Party ticket that embraces outdated ideology, taking some of the worst from the twentieth century and presenting it as a plan for the twenty-first. http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/aug/28/grand-old-marxists/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=September+4+2012&utm_content=September+4+2012+CID_60a4b38aa45a72334c62b9c9f3f4de91&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_term=Grand+Old+Marxists