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On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:56:05 -0400 Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> writes: > > > http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/675.php > > I would agree with the author of that piece that the passings of Cockburn and Vidal represent the end of a certain tradition of acerbic and often elegant radical journalism - A tradition that can be traced back to Marx, and, I would assert, can be traced even further back to writers like Thomas Paine and William Cobbett. Cockburn and Vidal seem to have no obvious successors, with one possible exception, a person with the initials, R. S., but I'll say no more about that lest he get a swollen head and become completely insufferable. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math ____________________________________________________________ Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
