> dear max, > by referring to dinosaurs and freaks, I was mocking the contemptuous way > technocrats dismiss their opposition, how they so rudely brush people > aside. Sorry the irony didn't come out. Don't send my address to the Rakesh, I'm sorry to say your irony was lost on me entirely. I read the passage as consistent with the way some people betray their lack of attention to important political events in the U.S. > Unabomber; it's not very nice of you to threaten me with violence. And I Seeing as how the UB will never walk the earth again as a free man, I would have thought the facetiousness of this would be obvious. But since I too am annoyed by implications of physical threats, please accept my apologies for any misunderstanding. > as for politics, you may want to check out Herman Gorter's and Anton > Pannekoek's anti-parliamentary communism (ed. DA Smart), Hal Draper's first > volume on Marx, Gary Teeple's Marx's Critique of Politics, Paul Thomas > Alien Politics, Richard Hunt's The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels, and > Paul Mattick's critique of the limits of Keynesian anti-cyclical > techniques. I haven't read all this myself. What do you think of Thomas > Ferguson's investment theory of electoral politics? I might look at them if I had the time or inclination to reengage Marx, but I'm not quite there yet. Thanks for the cites anyway. Don't know what TF's investment theory is. Behind all this is the question of what attention to politics means. My contention, flogged here before, is that there is too much emphasis in PEN-L on academic texts and too much inattention to really-existing politics. Cheers, MBS ================================================== Max B. Sawicky Economic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 1200 202-775-8810 (voice) 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-0819 (fax) Washington, DC 20036 Opinions here do not necessarily represent the views of anyone associated with the Economic Policy Institute. ===================================================
