[lbo-talk] RIP Carrol

Miles Jackson milesvjackson at comcast.net
Sat Aug 11 19:49:42 PDT 2018


I only knew him on LBO and through his academic work, but I'll miss him too.  Thanks, Doug.

Miles

On 8/11/2018 12:21 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> There are still a few subscribers to this list, and given Carrol Cox’s importance to it (he made 11,541 posts!) it seems only right he be memorialized here. I posted this to Facebook a little while ago:
>
> "I learned this morning that Carrol Cox <https://www.facebook.com/carrol.cox?fref=mentions> died. We fought a lot over the years—he could be a cantankerous SOB—but I always liked the guy. Smart and principled and unrelenting. One of the stars of my old listserv, lbo-talk. It was always a treat when he'd depart from denouncing others' deviationism for a reading of Milton or Pound.
> We met a few times in person and it was my first and still most extreme example of how a real-life personality can differ from online: he was always friendly, gracious, even giggly in real life.
> Anyway, RIP, Carrol. I'll miss you."
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