New Left Gossip

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Mon May 8 00:31:22 PDT 2000


There's an article 'Journey's End for Alasdair MacIntyre' in the British Trotskyist journal New Interventions Vol4, No2, July 1993. I don't have a copy anymore, but as I remember it, MacIntyre was in the Socialist Labour League, the party led by Gerry Healy that Vanessa Redgrave joined. The article has a little doggerel poem about the religious conversions of MacIntyre and Brian Behan popular among his cdes. Sorry I can't remember it.

As someone said, his 'Self Images of the Age' is very good, especially the essay on the ideology of 'the end of ideology'.

In message <01BFB796.8FE52600.bruce.rob at btinternet.com>, Bruce Robinson <bruce.rob at btinternet.com> writes
>. 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.
>
>McIntyre was a member of the International Socialists for a relatively brief
>period in the early 60s.
>
>Bruce Robinson
>
>
>> Michael
>> Pugliese
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-- Jim heartfield



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