Cliff Conner is a Trotskyist who has specialized in writing biographies:
1. Jean Paul Marat: Scientist and Revolutionary
2. Colonel Despard: The Life And Times Of An Anglo-irish Rebel
3. Arthur O'Connor: The Most Important Irish Revolutionary You May Never
Have Heard of
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote:
Cliff Conner is a Trotskyist who has specialized in writing biographies:
1. Jean Paul Marat: Scientist and Revolutionary
2. Colonel Despard: The Life And Times Of An Anglo-irish Rebel
The responses on this thread have so far centered on iconography. I
wonder what this tells us about the extent to which bits of Marxism
wind up subsumed back into the great man assumptions about history.
ML
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Mark Lause wrote:
The responses on this thread have so far centered on iconography. I
wonder what this tells us about the extent to which bits of Marxism
wind up subsumed back into the great man assumptions about history.
A couple of the Cliff Conner books were about obscure figures.
The new titles are welcome.
I didn't simply mean that the biographies are of great as opposed to
obscure, but also that the biographies given early are of people
whose politics we tend to like. Iconic in that sense.
What about a Marxist biography of Franklin Roosevelt? Or Susan B.
Anthony? Or
