<< Which reminds me, anyone here ever study with Alasdair
MacIntyre? He was part of the original New Reasoner/Universities and Left
Review crowd that NLR emerged from. His early politics are called
neo-Trotskyist, in David Widgery's Penguin books anthology on the Brit New
Left. His book of essays from the late 60's, "Against the Self-Images of the
Age, " is a fine read. >>
No, I didn't study with him. You know he has gone over the communitarian Catholic right, no? Thompson has a discussion of his early views in The Politics of Theory, with long quotes, that bring out what a tragedy that is. --jks