Louis, In addition to Moseley, seven others are Arthur MacEwan, David Kotz, Julie Matthaei, Peter Bohmer, Renee Toback, Richard Du Boff and myself. In my case, the quote had nothing to do with the minimum wage: "[T}he weight of informed professional opinion is moving towards rejection of the official account of 9-11". Many cited connected to Marxism, Bohmer to Hugo Chavez.
What is basically going is McCarthyism: guilt by association (regarding the 600 economists who back increasing the minimum wage). Paul Zarembka > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:51:51 -0500 > From: Louis Proyect <[email protected]> > Subject: [Pen-l] Full page red-baiting ad in today's NY Times > To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition > <[email protected]>, Progressive Economics > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Here it is: > > http://www.minimumwage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/EPI_NYT_MEMO.pdf > > It is the work of minimumwage.com, a rightwing group probably funded by > the Koch brothers et al. It cites the words of or words describing a > number of the economists who signed a statement supporting a higher > minimum wage in order to demonstrate that they are Marxists. Some of > the > names will be familiar to you if you are a PEN-L subscriber. For > example: > > Fred Moseley: "...one of the foremost scholars of Marxist economic > theory in the world today" > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
