Historical Progress/Question for Jim O' Connor

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Wed Feb 2 09:12:34 PST 2000


Since Jim O' Connor is participating on another thread, and I read, the G.A. Cohen book on histmat. when I took one of his classes way back in the early 80's when I went to UCSC (Jim was a major reason I went to Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp, the land of the Banana Slugs, Slugs Rule!!!) what sayeth Jim O' Connor now on the Cohen technodeterminist thesis? Just looked in the index to Accumulation Crisis and The Meaning of Crisis, no Gerald Cohen cites. Is Cohen one of those "analytical Marxists" now? Or "socialism is dead" types? Somewhere, I thought I'd seen some (sectarian?) comment to that effect, in the context of other Brit marxists like, Tom Nairn, Norman Geras and other NLR writers of old. Course whoever said this, half remembered bilge, probably hates Perry Anderson too, for his comments on Fukuyama.

Michael Pugliese



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