>Paul Sweezy, 1910-2004.
>
>I would like Paul Sweezy to be remembered for the following passage:
>
>
>"The publication in 1952 of Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism
>in the USSR would make possible today a more satisfactory reply.ŠIn
>the light of [Stalin's] explanationŠI would like to amend the
>statement which Mr. Kazahaya criticizes.Š[The amended statement]
>conveys my meaning more accurately than the original wording and is,
>I think entirely in accord with Stalin's view." (Paul Sweezy (1953),
>The Present as History (New York: Monthly Review Press), p. 352.)
>
>Paul Sweezy called himself an intellectual. Paul Sweezy publicly
>revised his opinion on an analytical issue in order to agree with
>the position taken by a genocidal tyrant. Fill in the blank: Paul
>Sweezy was a ________.
Brad, this is a disgrace. What is the point of saying something so cruel on the man's death? Is this a ham-handed attempt to police the limits of acceptable discourse? It's worthy of Horowitz.
Doug