[lbo-talk] The Working-Poor Draft

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 2 09:25:24 PST 2005


Michael Pugliese wrote:


>Noam didn't dispute that he said
>only 49 were killed in the worst of the pogroms in tsarist russia.
>http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/20051031.htm

That's pretty different from your earlier statement:


> > > Why only 49 Jews died in pogroms, Noam said so in
> > > The Guardian.

Brockes exact quote: [the pogroms were] "not very bad, by contemporary standards. In the worst of the major massacres, I think about 49 people were killed."

So is he wrong?

Doug



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