Mike P says it's baiting or insulting to say this, but Lou P really is an
out of body experience. And I don't necessarily say this like it's a bad
thing. His temper is awful, but he clearly missed a career in standup comedy
when he decided to set himself up as the Lenin of the World Wide Web. I
rather enjoy Lou when he goes off like this. Wish I had the talent to do it
myself.
>From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [PEN-L:11978] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Eurocentrism once again
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:22:11 -0400
>
> >what specifically did Brenner say that was so uncomradely? and why "of
> >course"? are you saying that he's a _total sleaze-bag_, so that we should
> >_expect_ him to be boorish?
> >
> >Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
>I had the opportunity to read Brenner's original NLR article which was
>heavily edited. Jim Blaut got a purloined version which he passed on to me
>in his last will and testament. In this original article Brenner referred
>to Harry Magdoff as "an overweight goat" and said that the Monthly Review
>brown bag luncheons reminded him of an old folks home. He also said that
>Paul Sweezy had bad breath and wore underwear with pictures of comic strip
>characters on them, like Tweetie Bird and Casper the Ghost. This form of
>arrested development supposedly was responsible for the "dependency theory"
>deviation from the kind of orthodoxistical Marxism that Brenner advocated.
>My understanding is that there was a big fight at NLR over whether this
>business about the underwear should have been edited out or not, with Tariq
>Ali and Robin Blackburn the major antagonists. I will allow you to guess
>who took which side.
>
>Louis Proyect
>Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
>
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