File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1997/97-02-15.234, message 53


From: leata-AT-ix.netcom.com
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:41:14 -0600
Subject: M-G: To Rolf: Ellen Meiksins Wood


At 07:22 AM 2/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:55:26 +0100 (MET)
>Subject: Re: M-G: Re: marxism-general-digest V1 #198
>
>Apologies for my ignorance Sally, but who the heck is Ellen M. Wood,
>and could you briefly outline her ideas or tell me where to find them?
>
>Rolf M.

Hi Rolf,

First, a big public thanks to Rolf for all the contributions he has made to
the non-English section of the Marx/Engels Internet Archive. 

Every so often someone asks what can be done to help in the struggle. At
MEIA I get letters every day from people all over the world who are
grateful to find that site. In some cases it is their only, or best access
to the works of Marx, Engels and the other Marxist writers who have
sub-archives there. A few have even offered to help transcribe works at
personal risk. Less than a handful of people I've heard from are names I
recognize from these lists. That only shows that there are many like-minded
people out there, and that the people most often heard from here are not
necessarily representative of the cross-section of modern Marxists.

Anyhow, all too briefly on Ellen M. Wood, unmistakably a modern Marxist.
Good news for you, Rolf, she is not a Trotskyist. I don't know much about
her background or what she does for a living outside of political writing.
Her work regularly appears in Monthly Review and all of her books are worth
consideration. Generally, I like her rejection of postmodern trends (i.e
identity politics) and her arguments for a return to class in left
politics. (Ironically, I first heard of her from people who now favor a new
consensus that undermines this).

A few of her books are "Democracy Against Capitalism", "Retreat From Class:
A New True Socialism", and "Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory".

Sally




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