Sidney, Hilton, Cornel, etc.

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Tue Jun 25 15:42:53 PDT 2002


I ran across one of Hook's books in a used book store this past Saturday. Only cost me $2.50. Not a bad deal.

Maybe we should all get used copies of David Horowitz' econ book and start talking it up. That might be the thing that would get him to snap altogether.

mbs


> I suspect that this is what is getting the goat of the
> neocons, who would like to have us all by the judgement
> that the older Sidney Hook had succeeded in burying
> Marxism, and that his own youthful Marxism is of interest
> mainly because he had later turned against it. In fact
> Hook seems to have been of two minds concerning
> his Marxist work. On the one hand in his memoir
> *Out of Step*, he boasted that his book *Towards the
> Understanding of Karl Marx* had helped to convert
> students at Oxford and Cambridge to Communism
> (one wonders about the Cambridge spies). On the
> other hand, Hook in his will specified that book was
> never to be reissued (although I have heard that
> Prometheus Books is ti reissue it in a few years).



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