Pragmatism Against the American Grain

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Alasdair MacIntyre is the rare ex-Marxist who did not morph into a neoconservative. He is hard to place on the commonplace Left-Right political axis because he has rejected the modern assumptions common to both its poles. Still, as a kind of anti-capitalist radical, he remains convinced that Marxism is a source of indispensable critical insights into the nature of capitalism and how it functions…