Sam Pawlett wrote:
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>
> [excerpt from a fascinating yet flawed book called The Wealth of Some
> Nations by Malcolm Caldwell. Caldwell was an English Maoist of sorts who
> was a state guest of Pol Pot then subsequently murdered in still
> mysterious circumstances in 1977.
A very interesting book indeed, and, as I wrote before, I think to Lou's
list, I went with Malcolm (a friend of sorts) to Heathrow airport on Christmas
Eve in I think 1976, and had dinner with him before he flew to Khampuchea,
where he was shot within days of arriving. Incidentally, this was the very
first book ever published by socialist publisher Roger van Zwanenberg, who
founded Zed Books in the early 1970s and later bought Pluto Press, which he
still runs. Few people have done more, in a persevering and selfless way, to
serve the cause of left publishing than has Roger van Zwanenberg, who also
publishes our own and prolific Pat Bond: and Boris Kagarlitsky too, and a
galaxy of other writers.
Mark
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