[lbo-talk] Sraffa (was Ellen Willis dies)

[Paul]

Yes, Naldi is a good example of people who have researched Sraffa without 
finding a secret Stalinist sectarian.  Naldi is a dedicated biographer of 
Sraffa and I believe one of his articles ('Some notes on Sraffa's 
biography, 1917-27',1998 Review of Political Economy 10,4) illustrates the 
period I was discussing and (IMO) its relevance today.  While their ideas 
varied enormously we can draw on the personal trajectory of  people like 
Sraffa, Gramsci, Mariategui etc (all were in Italy in the early '20s) to 
see how the left can return to a time where it was considered that we 
seriously enhance each other intellectually and materially without 
compromising our substantive differences.  It was the aberration of 
Stalinism/the reaction to Stalinism that deprived us of that mutual support.

In terms of the specific query from Naldi I believe he subsequently 
published that research in the (European Journal of the History of Economic 
Thought 'Piero Sraffa: emigration and scientific activity 1921 -- 45' 2005, 
vol. 12, issue 3).  The same issue has a number of other Sraffa 
biographical articles, some by people who spent quite a bit of time with 
Sraffa (Pasinetti, Garegnani).  Again, no trace of Stalinism was found.

Paul

Michael Pugliese writes:
>   Maybe this scholar can help.
>http://les.man.ac.uk/chnn/CHNN14P.html
>COMMUNIST HISTORY
>NETWORK NEWSLETTER
>No 14, SPRING 2003
>Research Notes
>Piero Sraffa
>
>I am currently researching material for a biography of the radical
>Italian economist Piero Sraffa (1898-1983). .....
>...Nerio Naldi
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