Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Al Shirk Strikes Again

Al Shirk (he changed his surname to his wife's, Lindemann, back in the glory days of sensitive feminism) is a socialist historian of European socialism, who has been trying to indoctrinate students at UC Santa Barbara for more than 30 years. In my experience with him as a graduate student, he viewed everything through a filter that ignored contrary evidence and accepted only information that placed socialism in a good light. Clever, he was not profound. In seminar, getting him to agree with silly, but pro-socialist, propositions was a sport. Several Jewish graduate students described him then as a self-hating Jew. This book seems consistent with his ideological bent.