Was George Soros there?
Michael Pugliese, gonna have a scotch for lunch to work on the Sorosis of
the liver I need...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:37 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:11992] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Eurocentrism once again
> Mike P says it's baiting or insulting to say this, but Lou P really is an
> out of body experience. And I don't necessarily say this like it's a bad
> thing. His temper is awful, but he clearly missed a career in standup
comedy
> when he decided to set himself up as the Lenin of the World Wide Web. I
> rather enjoy Lou when he goes off like this. Wish I had the talent to do
it
> myself.
>
>
> >From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [PEN-L:11978] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Eurocentrism once again
> >Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:22:11 -0400
> >
> > >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
> >Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
> >
>
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