When I asked him often how a socialist could play polo, sing opera, and
belong to a yacht club he always responded 'nothing's too good for the
worker.'
Thank you everyone for your kind comments. I've forwarded them to my
mother so that she can read them too. Dad was only diagnosed three
months ago and until two weeks ago he was doing great and we were
optimistic that he would beat it. Needless to say it came as a huge
shock to us all to discover that the cancer had spread rapidly and that
he had little time. He was uncomplaining, gracious, and generally
good-humoured until the end. He really was most concerned about others
when no one would have blamed him for being self-pitying. It is
difficult for us to contemplate life without him but we are comforted by
all of the kind messages we have received from his students, colleagues
and friends.
yours,
Erin Phillips
michael a. lebowitz wrote:
I'm really sorry to hear about Paul's death. I first met him a bit
after arriving in Canada because he was the research economist for the
B.C. Federation of Labour, and I recall vividly a meeting at his house
with the then-leader (could be 1966 or 1967) of the provincial NDP to
talk about economic policies of the party should he win the election.
(I remember thinking, why am I here? Shouldn't this be a party
discussion?) Paul subsequently was a visitor in my department,
teaching economic history while I was away, went off to teach
economics at the University of Manitoba but could be counted on to
appear at annual meetings of the Learned Societies ['the stupids']
across the country and to liven up parties of the Society for
Socialist Studies and occasional pub gatherings with song (I have a
vague, besotted memory of such an occasion in a Halifax pub). I also
saw him when he was briefly on the editorial board of Studies in
Political Economy. Other than that, we kept in touch periodically with
e-mail discussions of worker-management in x-Yugoslavia and about a
mutual friend from Slovenia. I always had it in mind to arrange for
him to come to Venezuela to talk about the Yugoslav experience (and I
think invited him once when he was otherwise committed). I'll miss our
connection. He was a good person. But I'll never understand what he
was doing playing polo.
michael
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