Re: [marxmail] A Combustible Compound: On Paul Hanebrink’s “A Specter Haunting Europe” and Elissa Bemporad’s “Legacy of Blood” - Los Angeles Review of Books

2021-01-22 Thread trusscott.foundation via groups.io
I put up the following comment: 'One surprise is that the Soviet state in the 1920s was committed not only to suppressing the charge of Judeo-Bolshevism, for its own obvious reasons, but to rooting out the ritual murder accusation — and condemning antisemitism more generally. It convened commis

Re: [marxmail] Telos Editors Serving on Pompeo's "Commission on Unalienable Rights"

2020-09-12 Thread trusscott.foundation via groups.io
I'm wondering when my old chums in Spiked will adopt Carl Schmitt and his ideas. I think that Piccone's statement, cited by Louis, pretty much sums up the state of play in the Revolutionary Communist Party when it gave up the ghost to become Spiked back in 1997: '... h alf of our editors have re

Re: [marxmail] Abraham’s exile: the sad story of a young Marxist historian.

2020-09-11 Thread trusscott.foundation via groups.io
Quote: ' There are three comprehensive accounts of the Abraham affair: a six-column article in the NYT , https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/23/arts/a-quarrel-over-weimar-book.html ( https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1984%2F12%2F23%2Farts%2Fa-quarrel-over-weimar-book.htm

Re: [marxmail] New novel about Trotsky.

2020-08-14 Thread trusscott.foundation via groups.io
Hello Dan This looks a fascinating novel; I'm looking forward to reading it. Did you get my e-mail to you about Souvarine? I have the Word files of the collection of Souvarine's articles that Al Richardson assembled some time back. Paul F -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive al