Sometimes you make jokes that lots of people don't know are jokes. For those who are not quite up on this, the novelist in question was Yukio Mishima, not Morishima, who committed Seppuku several years ago when the Japanese military refused to seize power and reinstitute emperor worship. That's no joke.
As for Louis's remark: hah hah hah. Barkley Rosser On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:28:47 -0400 Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> wrote:
> Andrew Kliman:
> >I challenge Jones to defend this statement
> >seriously, or to retract it. For instance, I'd like to see him
> >demonstrate that my work, and the similar work of John Ernst,
> >Alejandro Ramos, and Alan Freeman,
> >has not in fact refuted the Okishio Theorem on its own terms --
> >the irrefutability of which was taken for granted in the days of
> >the debates about Morishima."
>
> Now Morishima is a character that I have some knowledge about and I might
> even add my own two cents. He was an outstanding novelist despite his
> reactionary politics. For my money, "Forbidden Colors" is one of the finest
> novels dealing with homosexual themes in the 20th century. I would
> recommend that comrades read this novel not only for its sensitive
> treatment of the gay subculture in Tokyo, but also for its extended
> discussion of Bohm-Bawerk in the pentultimate chapter.
>
> Louis Proyect
>
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu