Proceedings were delayed in litigation over the estate of Lydia “Dia” Abrams when the attorney representing the missing woman’s ranch manager suddenly passed away.
There is an extensive Marxist literature on what I would call “betrayal”. This began in the lifetime of Marx and Engels; it continued in the 1890s when Kautsky accused Eduard Bernstein of betraying Marxism with his call for revisionism; later Lenin attacked the “renegade Kautsky” for his parliamentarianism and failure to endorse the Bolshevik revolution of 1917; subsequently it was Trotsky who, from the 1920s on, as one of the key figures in the Left Opposition, attacked and vilified Stalin for betraying the Russian Revolution.
which have carried that on, i think i actually started before. but in a conscious way. i know you took up the piano, for example. the other day, people who follow you will know you did a piano concert with other people. so scary. but do you really think, ok, i m out of government now, i need to give time to other things in my life to have some ballst, and to have what dennis healey famously called a hinterland? i think, genuinely, i thought i m in danger of having a midlife crisis, so therefore i should plan it. i have always been somebody who likes to think about having a view, a plan, sort things out and i thought this is a time to start thinking about things which are important and devote more time to them. is there a bit of you that thinks you d be a better politician now because you have had that broader life? 0ddly, i m not asking