>what specifically did Brenner say that was so uncomradely? and why "of
>course"? are you saying that he's a _total sleaze-bag_, so that we should
>_expect_ him to be boorish?
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
I had the opportunity to read Brenner's original NLR article which was
heavily edited. Jim Blaut got a purloined version which he passed on to me
in his last will and testament. In this original article Brenner referred
to Harry Magdoff as "an overweight goat" and said that the Monthly Review
brown bag luncheons reminded him of an old folks home. He also said that
Paul Sweezy had bad breath and wore underwear with pictures of comic strip
characters on them, like Tweetie Bird and Casper the Ghost. This form of
arrested development supposedly was responsible for the "dependency theory"
deviation from the kind of orthodoxistical Marxism that Brenner advocated.
My understanding is that there was a big fight at NLR over whether this
business about the underwear should have been edited out or not, with Tariq
Ali and Robin Blackburn the major antagonists. I will allow you to guess
who took which side.
Louis Proyect
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