The left: still dying (was Re: European Unions)

John Lacny jplst15+ at pitt.edu
Sun Apr 8 10:22:40 PDT 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi writes:


>Let's take Doug Henwood, for instance, who is a petty producer, not a
>wage worker at a university. You & DP claim to have read his _Wall
>Street_ & admired its clarity, etc. Have you guys looked into his
>bibliography & thought about who wrote articles & books he draws
>upon, sometimes to support his arguments, sometimes to harvest
>empirical data, other times to criticize arguments in them?

While I also found Doug's book very useful, I've talked to people -- pretty smart activists, though not "intellectuals" in either the "academic" or "organic" sense -- who said they found it difficult going. So one person's "Marx for Dummies" is another person's "Spectres of Marx," I guess.

John Lacny



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