Reply #20: There Is Some Good Invective In The Piece, My Friend

[The Magistrate]

This bit is a true gem:

"We expected this kind of unprincipled opportunism from that party of shallow, complacent, vaguely left-leaning but ultimately timid petit-bourgeois idiots, but we are still baffled by the readiness of those who regard national laws as bourgeois illusions to treat “international laws” as if they are any different."

It is a little odd to see doctrinaire Marxists fetch up in a position not too different from that of a pragmatic, just a little right of center fellow in a sports bar, but inexorable pursuit of a logical framework can have intruiging consequences....