>Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
>>http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/dissident.html
>
>"Dissident Marxism argues that the roots of today's anti-capitalist
>movement can be found in the life and work of an earlier generation
>of socialist revolutionaries, including such inspiring figures as
>the Soviet poet Mayakovsky, the Marxist philosopher Karl Korsch,
>Communist historians Edward Thompson and Dona Torr, the Egyptian
>surrealist Georges Henein, American New Left economists Paul Baran
>and Paul Sweezy, advocates of Third World liberation including
>Walter Rodney and Samir Amin, Harry Braverman, the author of Labor
>and Monopoly Capital, and David Widgery, the journalist of the May
>'68 revolts."
>
>Nope. They don't even get partial credit for this claim. This could
>be an interesting book, perhaps better than this blurb, but judging
>it on this blurb I have to laugh. Run the names of these people past
>anti-capitalist activists and you will draw blank looks.
>
>If you want to trace the influence of socialist and Marxist ideas on
>the anti-capitalist movements, you'd be getting warmer if you
>brought up the Situationists and autonomist Marxists. The council
>communist movement and so on.
You're right about American activists, but I wonder about Europeans, Asians, and Latin Americans, who may be a lot more familiar with the Marxist tradition (and intellectual reflection and dispute in general) than Americans.
Doug