Obituary: Learning from John Berger

In the past weeks so many persons around the world are together in remembering John Berger – as though he were a friend, almost as though we are all friends. As though in this mourning there is some elation reminiscent of another time and another life when it was possible to pronounce the word solidarity without embarrassment, if also a little naively, considering how much remained unresolved and quite beyond the youthful leap of left politics. Berger was what a young person would want to be, then, when wefirst ‘knew’ him.