On 2/6/16 5:39 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
> http://newleftreview.org/II/94/perry-anderson-incommensurate-russia Anderson is a wonderful prose stylist, a sort of gloomy elegiac Marxist Matthew Arnold. A number of splendid phrases in this piece, e.g. "A wrapping of legal proprieties around a ramshackle pyramid of kleptocracy and thuggery." "Ramshackle pyramid" is first-rate. This is applied to Russia, of course, but could it not equally be said of, oh, say, the United States? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
