[lbo-talk] Kagarlitsky

[wrobert at uci.edu]

> I've been thumbing through Kagarlitsky's latest (I
> think) book, published last year. If translated
> more-or-less literally into English, the title would
> be something like "Marxism: No Recommended for
> Instruction." I was wondering if it's been translated
> into English. Does anybody know? It's a history of
> Marxism written for a post-Soviet Russian audience.
>
> (He's much better at this stuff than he is at spinning
> conspiracy theories or forecasts of imminent doom.)
>
> (By the way, I watched the DVD adaptation of HP
> Lovecraft's "The Dreams in the Witch House" the other
> day. I swear to God that Brown Jenken looks just like
> Kagarlitsky. I almost died laughing.)

Evidently, he's also working on a book in the world systems theory
tradition on Russia that should come out in English.  He evidently has
some connections to that world.  Robert Wood