At 02:42 AM 2/26/2005 -0500, you wrote:
At 06:01 PM 2/25/2005 -0800, Steve Gabosch wrote:
Yes, that would be an interesting discussion to read. Where does one get
SWP internal bulletins from the 1940's?
In New York, the best place is Tamiment Library at NYU, where I did a
great deal of research
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:29:25 -0800 Steve Gabosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At 02:42 AM 2/26/2005 -0500, you wrote:
At 06:01 PM 2/25/2005 -0800, Steve Gabosch wrote:
BTW, what awful book and who was John Somerville?
He was an American philosopher who wrote studies of
Soviet philosophy,
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:49:38 -0500 Jim Farmelant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:29:25 -0800 Steve Gabosch
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At 02:42 AM 2/26/2005 -0500, you wrote:
At 06:01 PM 2/25/2005 -0800, Steve Gabosch wrote:
BTW, what awful book and who
The Philosophy of Marxism: An Exposition is the book I had in mind. It
is often used as a standard textbook. What a piece of crap! But rather
typical, esp. of the books that muck around with dialectical logic. (The
later Soviet textbooks became a bit shrewder, pretty much avoiding the
I see John Somerville wrote a number of books on Marxism. I don't think
Novack ever mentioned him, and I do not remember ever hearing of him
elsewhere or running across his work. A superficial scan of the article on
line didn't impress me as contributing to any particular ongoing debate
I've addressed the Somerville question elsewhere. I always assumed he was
Cp, judging by the company he kept. But I don't think so; that's why I
referred to him as a fellow traveller.
I've not visited CSH in Berkeley, which is based on Hal Draper's work, but
I would assume it is
I have stumbled onto some long sought material in my files, i.e. my notes
from 1991 on debates on dialectics conducted under pseudonyms, featuring
William Warde (George Novack) and Marc Loris (Jean Van Heijenoort), with
interventions by John G. Wright, J. Weber, George Sanders, Irwin Hyper
Yes, that would be an interesting discussion to read. Where does one get
SWP internal bulletins from the 1940's?
I notice, Ralph, the occasional disparaging remark about Engels and the one
below about Novack. I think I can make a case that while one may disagree
with their views, their
At 06:01 PM 2/25/2005 -0800, Steve Gabosch wrote:
Yes, that would be an interesting discussion to read. Where does one get
SWP internal bulletins from the 1940's?
In New York, the best place is Tamiment Library at NYU, where I did a great
deal of research in the '90s. Also Prometheus Research
