>Someone who
>translated the Federalist Papers
What's so great about them?
Doug
Heh, figured I'd get a question there! I've argued a bit with right-wing Constitutionalist fetishists (who almost always misinterpret the Constitution and the Federalist Papers) whose idea of an argument is akin to the Watchtower folks quoting Scripture on a good day. (My lawyer friend, Eric Kirk, spents months arguing with a Libertoon who signed his posts, Regard$ ,Kirk is much more patient than I !) Anyway, back to the point I should have made before. Kostunica, at least, has a deep regard (oops! now I know I'm a goner, soon I'll be signing off Regard$) for the law, in contrast to Milosevic. W/O going too much into something I know diddly about, I'm always inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to political systems and politicos that appeal to procedural norms embodied in constitutions. And I need an excuse to read that last Habermas book on the Law. Reviewed by Richard Epstein in TNR. Think I fwded. it a while back. But, hey, I'm a American lefty with a Beam In My Eye From The Empire ;-)
I did not really answer
your question on the Federalist papers though...maybe Nathan or Justin?
Otherwise, I'll have to read that edition of the Federalist Papers edited by
Sidney Hook! After I reread his piece, "What Is Living And Dead In Marxism,
" from the late 30's.
Can't resist this cite from Albert Weisbord on Hook. (His widow had a great
autobio I read yrs. ago, "A Radical Life, " from Indiana Univ. Press. They
were organizers of the bloody strike in Gastonia, N.C. in '29) "Failing in
mass work, the Cannon group turns to substitutes, to deals and tricks with
the Left Socialists, the Musteites, the Max Eastmans, Lores,
Salutsky-Hardmans, Sidney Hooks and others of their kind. In order to get a
"Mass" party quickly and without effort, they are willing to take in all
shady political elements and call it a "new deal" or "Fourth" international.
In the meantime they prove to be the bitterest fighters against us, who,
first of all in this country, came out for a genuine Fourth International."
>From Class Struggle, June-July 1934.
www.weisbord.org/FourSixSeven.htm
Oh boy! "Scorpions in a Bottle: Dangerous Ideas about the United States and
the Soviet Union: Selected Addresses from the Shavano Institute's Conference
on Moral Equivalence, " at Hillsdale College. Speeches by
William Bennett Irving Kristol Peter Berger Michael Novak Sidney Hook
Melvin Lasky Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Joseph Sobran
And a serious work by lefty, Christopher Phelps on the early Hook. (One of
these days I'll read his never reprinted, "Towards An Understanding Of Karl
Marx, " from '32. Cites Lukacs and Korsch. Found it for 10 bucks, a real
find.) Sidney Hook: Marxist Pioneer. YOUNG SIDNEY HOOK: MARXIST AND
PRAGMATIST by Christopher
Phelps. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. 280 pp
http://www.igc.org/solidarity/phelps68.txt
Michael Pugliese, still reading that sectariana...