On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Louis Proyect wrote:
> Now that I look back in retrospect, I think that the final trajectory could
> have been anticipated in "Wall Street" itself which I finally had occasion
> to read last year. It is a curious sort of book written at least tacitly in
> the name of Marxism. It is almost devoid of politics. Money has a life of
> its own and the ability of working people to abolish the rule of capital
> and set up their own rules hardly enters the picture. Basically there is
> not that much difference between Doug and the laughable Chris Burford whose
> endorsement of every little bit of "social control" of finance threatens to
> require smelling salts.
>
> The odd thing is that no matter how successful Doug is in the world of the
> left glitterati, he has never been able to accept that among serious
> Marxists he is viewed as something of a joke. A very intelligent joke, but
> a joke nonetheless.
>
>
Do you count people like Leo Panitch or Sam Gidin as seeing Doug as a very
intelligent joke?
Steve
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