M-TH: Re: Monthy Review - friend or foe

2000-03-02 Thread Hugh Rodwell
Doug H amazed us all by writing about the shenanigans at the Monthly Review: Internal disputes. My lips are sealed, except to say it's more a clash of personalities than political principles. Such loyalty! And yet so revealing! Now let's see -- a megaphone for bureaucratic-academic scepticism

Re: M-TH: Re: Monthy Review - friend or foe

2000-03-02 Thread Doug Henwood
Hugh Rodwell wrote: Only thing that bothers me is that Doug is claiming to be able to recognize political principles here. Well, I suppose when he kicked me out of his own p-b incubator of bureaucratic-academic scepticism for making some pretty self-evident pro-revolutionary remarks -- about

M-TH: Re: Monthy Review - friend or foe

2000-03-01 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day John, I've never had the pleasure of reading an MR (not a single Oz newsagent stocks it), but I've read several of Wood's books (the latest being *Democracy Against Capitalism*) and at least one article. She's genuine, clever and a good writer (renewing my confidence in the Marxian take

Re: M-TH: Re: Monthy Review - friend or foe

2000-03-01 Thread Doug Henwood
Rob Schaap wrote: Time for Doug (to whom, many thanks for letting Hugh's little gratuity glide past) Only because I didn't read it. What'd my favorite TrotBot say? to put his finger to the pulse, I reckon. Wassa story, Doug? Internal disputes. My lips are sealed, except to say it's more a