As I wrote on marxism-thaxis, when Rob Schaap posted this piece there:--
This is more than snide, and more than the arch references to Marx I quoted from a Washington Post article recently on the internet.
Its position in the Encyclopaedia Britainnica shows a new level of success in polishing marxist ideas and representing them in an acceptable form. Note that appears to be one without too much overt class conflict but rather in such a fashion as to excite the intellectual curiosity of the intelligentsia.
Still a bridge head is a bridgehead.
I see from search engines that Peter Hudis has authored an editorial in News and Letters against the Kosovo war. From their website:-
>News & Letters is a Marxist-Humanist journal which was created so that the
>voices of revolt
>from below could
>be heard unseparated from the articulation of a philosophy of liberation.
>Raya Dunayevskaya was
>Chairwoman of the National Editorial Board from its founding in 1955 until
>her death in 1987.
Even more interestingly he has published a joint article with Andrew Kliman in the same journal:
>October 1998 Lead article
>
>
>
> Russia's economic nose dive exposes roots of
> capitalism's global turmoil
>
> By Peter Hudis and Andrew Kliman
>
> In what looks like a topsy-turvy world, the global economic downturn,
> which began in East Asia in 1997, has
> become so severe that some of the biggest advocates of the "free
> movement" of capital have suddenly
> proclaimed the need for greater state intervention in the global economy.
He also took part in seminars at 18TH ANNUAL SOCIALIST SCHOLARS CONFERENCE (31 March-2 April) at CUNY where he is described as the editor of the Marxist Humanist, and as linked to News and Letters.
Presumably he is known personally to some members of this list.
One specific question from the article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
> Marx opposed centralized state control of the economy
>(he called those who advocated it "crude and unthinking communists")
Where did Marx say this, anybody?
Chris Burford
London