Hello Marv: Yes all this is in general true. I think Tooze is however, at some deeper level quite conflicted about Marxism. He engaged in a 'dialogue' about this, but I never read it fully enough to really comment - I think it was a dialogue with - was it Alex Callinicos or someone like that. Sorry - too busy to be bothered to unearth it... it was while he was in China for a period.
Look - I read Tooze as an indicator, and as a source of at times - of interest. He carries at times some relatively unusual art illustrations that are good also. But frankly when he is on a platform at the World Economic Forum and you see him next to Christine Legarde - it is difficult to see him as anything other than a bribed tamed intellectual. Yes I get it - having the opportunity to form economic views is heady stuff. But... ... Much as Marx called the prize-fighters - in his preface in Capital. Thank goodness he has not emerged from the Epstein files... I suspect he will not. And my use of the word 'bribed'' is rather loose I grant that. To be in such a high profile still at Columbia, demands a certain reticence in what he says, so he exercises that self-censorship. There is an interaction there. I am wary of that word 'dialectical'. But maybe my meaning might be understood. Michael Roberts is often aware of how closely one should read Tooze, if I recall. H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40773): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40773 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117927517/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
