John Weeks, hmmm. I have a bone to pick with this guy anyhow. I arranged a debate between contra supporter and DSA member Paul Berman and a pro-Sandinista expert. NACLA proposed Weeks and I lined him up. Hundreds of people came expecting a debate. Berman pushed his horrible stuff as you might expect. But Weeks sprang a surprise on us. The substance of his talk was that the Sandinistas were not revolutionary at all, but much more like the Mexican ruling party: reformist and nationalist. Boy, was I burnt. If the guy only had the honesty to tell me up-front what his views were. All he wanted was a forum for his bullshit. Louis On Sun, 3 Sep 1995, James Miller wrote: > TO PEN-L SUBSCRIBERS; > This is for those interested in controversies > in theoretical Marxian economics. > The attempt to pit Marx against Engels, to > show Engels as an opponent of Marx, and to refute > Engels while purportedly defending Marx, is one > way of indirectly attacking Marxism as a whole. > This is the method employed by John Weeks in > the first two chapters of his 1981 book, _Capital > and Exploitation_. > A working paper is available on the internet > which defends the theoretical unity of Marx and > Engels and explains where Weeks goes wrong. At > the same time, the paper summarizes the views of > Marx and Engels on the historical development of > the category of value. > To access this paper, use ftp or gopher and go > to csf.colorado.edu. Then choose progressive > sociologists network. Then choose authors, then > James Miller. The title of the paper is "History > and the Law of Value." > Jim Miller > Seattle > > >
