Re: Julian Simon and Frank Furedi

1997-12-19 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
As for Hayek, Fueredi's criticism of him in Mythical Past, Elusive Future is pretty compelling. I tried to give you some good leads for criticism of Living Marxism in terms of their support of green revolution solutions. Not that I am persuaded by these criticisms, but they are interesting and

Re: Julian Simon and Frank Furedi

1997-12-19 Thread William S. Lear
On Fri, December 19, 1997 at 16:18:51 (-0500) Louis Proyect writes: ... At any rate, to get a flavor for the intellectual bits and pieces that Furedi has accumulated like a pack-rat, here's something from Julian Simon, a leading libertarian, who's one of his favorites. It is identical to the sort

Julian Simon and Frank Furedi

1997-12-19 Thread Louis Proyect
One of the differences I have had with Doug and other friends about the LM/RCP phenomenon is whether it is actually possible to see its current day ultrarightism as an outgrowth of a legitimate Marxist outlook they held in the past or something external. I put much more emphasis on external