Gray/Demos/Polanyi

[Doug Henwood]

A copy of John Gray's False Dawn, just published by the New Press, arrived
in the mail today. Does anyone know the rap on him? He seems a slightly
higher brow version of Soros (whom he quotes, thanks, and is blurbed by),
with vague calls for restraints on The Market, more enamored of "culture"
and "place" and "tradition" and "indigenous values" than Soros, very
anti-Marxist (part of the whole Enlightenment delusion), full of references
to Demos and the Social Market Foundation and Polanyi. I'm beginning to
worry that this Polanyi thing has gone too far. Can anyone fill me in on
all this?

Doug