Left-Wing Melancholy Re: Marx After Marxism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jan 11 16:09:32 PST 2003


Christian Gregory wrote:
>
> I've only speed-read the response by H&N and that's what
> they do--ie accuse Brennan of policing their use of the term.
>
> One can honor Toni Negri for the political risks he's
> taken--but he wasn't put in jail for calling himself
> communist. It wasn't even for being associated with
> communists per se, but with radicals who committed
> political violence.

Having called myself a communist was what probably resulted in my being merely censured and not fired in 1971. It made the Administration lean over backward to appear at least not to be engaging in "political" repression.

Carrol
>
> Christian



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