New Left Gossip

[Brad De Long]

>     I suspect the Gregory Elliott volume on Anderson, could be a bit too
>Althusserian, for my taste and others. Here is another work. Blurbed by
>Stuart Hall, if memory serves. " Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain:
>History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies, " Dennis L.
>Dworkin, Duke Univ. Press, 1997. Probably rectifies the imbalance back
>towards Williams,
>Thompson, Hoggart. 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.
>                                                              Michael
>Pugliese

And the subsequent death spiral into neo-Thomism is?...

Brad DeLong