When Nixon died, Mr. DeLong's boss The Willy made a fulsome speech at the The Dick's funeral--although all that was called for in the way of a speech was to recite the phrase *de mortuis nil nisi bonum* and then promptly to sit down. Mr DeLong neither made a public protest nor resigned, as far as I know.
As everyone on this list knows, I despise the Okhranik gravedigger of the revolution more intensely than Mr. DeLong ever could. But, whoever actually wrote it, "Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR" was far from devoid of interest to Marxists. Paul Sweezy's comments at the time could now merit no more than a footnote to a footnote. But Mr. DeLong tears them out of any recognizable context, and then tears them apart in order to shit on the grave of a great man.
Shane Mage Trotsky*ite*