It's true. His dad was Carlos Hudson, who was imprisoned in 1941 with other leading Trotskyists under the Smith Act. He was known to his comrades as Carl O'Shea. Here's a letter by Trotsky that mentions him: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1940/08/letter10.htm
On 3/26/16 3:05 PM, Eugene Coyle wrote: > The introduction to a post on Counterpunch — a conversation between > Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges has the opening remarks pasted here: > >> CHRIS HEDGES: We’re going to be discussing a great Ponzi scheme >> that not only defines not only the U.S. but the global economy, how >> we got there and where we’re going. And with me to discuss this >> issue is the economist Michael Hudson, author of Killing the Host: >> How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy. A >> professor of economics who worked for many years on Wall Street, >> where you don’t succeed if you don’t grasp Marx’s dictum that >> capitalism is about exploitation. And he is also, I should mention, >> the godson of Leon Trotsky. > > That last sentence was a real surprise to me. Can someone > elucidate? > > The conversation itself was a sad confusion. Hedges was up to it and > Hudson wasn’t able to keep things on track. > > the URL: > http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/the-great-ponzi-scheme-of-the-global-economy/ > > > > Gene > > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
