[lbo-talk] Prabhat Patnaik on Paul Sweezy

uvj at vsnl.com uvj at vsnl.com
Sun Mar 14 08:09:24 PST 2004


Eubulides posted:

Prabhat Patnaik:
>"The popularity of Monthly Review arose from its simplicity, its
>concreteness and its concern with the Third World. It did not have any of
>the narcissism, the Eurocentrism, and the penchant for "smartness", for
>"high-browism", and for coquetry with words that one often finds in many
>European Left journals.The reason for this contrast lay partly in its
>American-ness (which in "highbrow" European Left circles is often referred
>to as American "moralism", but one of whose constituents is a very large
>dose of honesty)" etc.

What's the relevance of MR to the Left in developing countries in the twenty first century?

Ulhas



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