Henwood in Baffler #11

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 23 19:30:43 PST 1998


James Farmelant wrote:


>A funny thing about Alan Wolfe is that he used to be
>a Marxist. Back in the 1970s he wrote or co-authored at least
>a couple of Marxist-oriented textbooks on politics. This all
>goes to show what a good career move becoming an
>ex-Marxist can be. There is hope for Doug, yet. -:)

One of the many things that makes Wolfe's book - One Nation, After All - so repellent is that he explictly serves it up as a peace offering to suburbia, a penance for all his criticism of mid-America in the sixties. Awful man, awful book.

Doug



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