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My own take on Harrington is that he wrote some fine books but in his role as a political figure, he had mostly toxic effects on the left. By his own admission, he pretty much single handedly poisoned relation,s in the early 1960s, between the New Left and the Old Left. He was a strident anticommunist, which led him to being supportive of US imperialism, and his advocacy of the socialists working within the Democratic Party has turned out to be a dead end that has hardly had any of the sorts of consequences that he predicted. On the other hand, he did write some fine books, most notably his book on poverty in the US, The Other America, plus some other worthwhile books, including his book on religion, The Politics at God's Funeral, which is discussed among other things in the essay, "Six Prominent American Freethinkers." (http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/fl161208.html). Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Joaqu�n Bustelo <jbust...@gmail.com> Subject: [Marxism] Mchael Harrington Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 22:58:25 -0400 The main editor of the (I would say misnamed) Jacobin magazine has published a couple of hosannas to Michael Harrington (who I will not further characterize in deference to comrades who insist it is impolitic to call people social-imperialist scumbags). This has provoked some discussion on the ISO's Socialist Worker website: <http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/08/taking-sides-on-harrington> This is my take on the discussion, which I submitted to their comment section a few minutes ago. ____________________________________________________________ Woman is 60 But Looks 25 Mom publishes simple facelift trick that angered doctors... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/518bc28661c8642856d73st01vuc ________________________________________________ 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
