[lbo-talk] the end of the left

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 20 15:52:50 PST 2004


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:58:42 -0800, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:


> Martin Jacques

Editor of the great Eurocommunist monthly, Marxism Today, of the CPGB in the 80's.

A volume on the CPGB I had not been familiar with before googling (but Renton is always a good read, see his recent, "Critical Marxism, " from Pluto) has this amusing detail http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=8294
> ... Their footnotes are particularly enjoyable--I did not know, for
> example, that while Khrushchev was delivering the 'secret' speech in
> 1956 denouncing Stalin and the 'cult of the individual', the CPGB
> delegation were visiting a condom factory!

Communist Prophylactics of Great Britain!

-- Michael Pugliese



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