Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Marv Gandall quoted Perry Anderson:
>
> > For the root determinant of this tradition was its formation by
> > defeat – the long decades of set-back and stagnation, many of them
> > terrible ones in any historical perspective, undergone by the
> > Western working class after 1920.
>
> "Perry is afraid of the working class. They might scuff his floors." -
> someone who's known him for decades
He's a mixed bag. I'm pretty sure I lost by never getting around to read his Lineages of the Absolutist State, though I suspect I might have disagreed with quite a bit of it. And for all my grouching at it, he published quite a bit of good stuff over the years in NLR.
Carrol