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To: Lane3 who wrote (25013)	7/24/2006 9:09:53 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542950

I disagree that you can be partisan as in a party activist and do so. Yes, I understood that was your position. That's why I invoked the Trotsky story. No more committed; but the range of his commitment included a stark realism as to why the revolution failed. In his case, his commitment lead to better history. I'm not arguing that's always the case; nor is the one necessary for the other. Just arguing that the one, passionate commitment, is not incompatible with accurately rendering the story. And the point of the Thompson/Stone bit was to show that scholars, quite eminent in their fields, having done by the agreed standards of the discipline, groundbreaking scholarship, could argue back and forth, in very civil, if blunt, ways about how one balances commitments and accuracy.