Steve Philion:
>Actually I knew one of Brenner's grad students a number of years ago in
>Taiwan. Right before I went back to grad school I told him I still wasn't
>sure about going back given the tendency of intellectuals to distance
>themselves from mass political involvement...Brenner was one of the people
>whom he cited as a counterexample to that trend.
Wasn't this when the BeeGees were popular?
>Maurice Zeitlin was
>another one. Would you have any substantive examples that prove that
>Brenner has no relationship with activists aside from the fact that he
>writes in academic journals or participates in big name conferences?
Yeah, my friends in Solidarity tells me that he is only a paper member of
the organization and spends all his time working on his next article for
the academic leftist press. Also, when Sol Dollinger tried to set up a
meeting with him to talk about writing the preface to his book on the UAW,
Brenner gave him a big runaround.
>In Brenner's writings btw, I haven't read anything equivalent to the
>piece that Anderson wrote in NLR essentially giving up on left politics,
>let alone revolution...
That's because he has to maintain credibility with people like you.
Louis Proyect
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