On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 08:07:56 -0700 Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
writes:
> Weren't they Sidney Hook's old outfit? I t would they seem that
> they
> didn't manage to outlive the old boy.
>
> Jim F.
>
> Yup! Hook was an honourary co-chair or some such. Dave McReynolds
> told me
> apropos Bayard Rustin, (dig up a Radical America piece on A. Phillip
> Randolph and Rustin from Manning Marable
> the late 70's ) another luminary in their costellation, that he said
> words
> to the effect of, "Am I still on the National Board of SDUSA?, " in
> a
> meeting with Dave and others from WRL.
> Hook's papers are at the Hoover Institution, which I saw rumours
> of being
> scaled back, which seems odd. Call the Olin Foundation for moola! Ed
> D'Angelo, on the SPSM list had some interesting comments on Hook,
> when I
> posted a review of the Christopher Phelps book, "Sidney Hook: From
> Pragmatist to Marxist, " if memory serves, from Syracuse Univ.
> Press. My
> favorite title of a review of Hook, by Phillip Green, of a
> collection of his
> articles from the late 70's, in The Nation, "A Sharp Right Hook."
> Second fave, in the Village Voice, back in the 80's, by Paul Berman,
> "Sidney
> Hook: The Last American Marxist." !!!
When do you think that someonw will do the decent thing and break the terms of Hook's will so that his book *Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx* can be republished?
Jim F.
> Michael Pugliese
>
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