At Least It's an Ethos pp. 235-239
This week’s section is an odd one and Webster is starting to lose her thread. I’ve noticed in the eight conspiracy books that we’ve read so far, that as the books go on the author loses the ability to stay on target. The only exception to this observation was Cooper’s book, because that was never on target to begin with. Webster is just bouncing around too much. She’s been confining herself to one time period per chapter, that’s good, but now we’re mixing revolutions between Russian and France and it’s getting a bit weird. We get, right out of the gate in chapter VIII, some anti-Semitism, “ the Marxist synagogue’ as Bakunin described it… ” Obviously, we’re returning to Webster’s crush, but we aren’t citing Bakunin. We’re citing someone else’s work on the history of Anarchism. It’s a small gripe but she has this pattern of citing what someone else said someone said. Here we have Ettore Zoccoli telling us that Bakunin called the Internationale a Marxist Synagogue. She should just cite Ba...