Thanks. I meant to write “Hedges was NOT up to it … “ Hudson struggled trying to answer an interviewer who wasn’t up to the self-set task.
> On Mar 26, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > It's true. His dad was Carlos Hudson, who was imprisoned in 1941 with > other leading Trotskyists under the Smith Act. He was known to his > comrades as Carl O'Shea. Here's a letter by Trotsky that mentions him: > https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1940/08/letter10.htm > > On 3/26/16 3:05 PM, Eugene Coyle wrote: >> The introduction to a post on Counterpunch — a conversation between >> Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges has the opening remarks pasted here: >> >>> CHRIS HEDGES: We’re going to be discussing a great Ponzi scheme >>> that not only defines not only the U.S. but the global economy, how >>> we got there and where we’re going. And with me to discuss this >>> issue is the economist Michael Hudson, author of Killing the Host: >>> How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy. A >>> professor of economics who worked for many years on Wall Street, >>> where you don’t succeed if you don’t grasp Marx’s dictum that >>> capitalism is about exploitation. And he is also, I should mention, >>> the godson of Leon Trotsky. >> >> That last sentence was a real surprise to me. Can someone >> elucidate? >> >> The conversation itself was a sad confusion. Hedges was up to it and >> Hudson wasn’t able to keep things on track. >> >> the URL: >> http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/the-great-ponzi-scheme-of-the-global-economy/ >> >> >> >> Gene >> >> >> _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list >> pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
