I wrote:
> >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?
Louis responds:
>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.
nice save, avoiding the question with a joke.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
