At 03:07 PM 9/29/99 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: >You got to be careful recommending these authors, Wojtek. There was a big >witch-hunt in the 1950s to weed out professors who were disciples of >Alexander Gerschenkron and things are starting to look menacing after Waco >and other FBI crackdowns. Are you familiar with the story of Lenny >Lipschitz, a sociology professor here at Columbia who led a secret study >group on Gerschenkron at his Riverside Dr. residence in 1957? It turns out No. But the witch-hunt hardly surprises me. I consider gerschenkronism more damaging to the US imperial and neo-liberal mythologies (it refutes the notion than x-USSR was the satan incarnate i.e. a communist state) than any other school of thought. wojtek
