File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1996/96-11-23.164, message 14


Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:27:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Pipes


On 30 Oct 1996, jc mullen wrote:

> Hmm... I suspect that it might be important that Pipes gets trumpeted today,
> whereas in the past right wingers who could at least put two ideas in a row were
> trumpeted. 

Well, maybe. But there was a lot of dumb rught wing stuff back when. Oh, I
remember another _really good_ rightwinger who wrote on Russis, ALexander
Gerschenkron. Rather technical stuff on political development. Very much
worth the while. Smart as they come. Also, Merle Fainsod, How Russia is
Ruled and his book on Smolensk in the 3o's, based on archives recovered
>from the Nazis. AT the sme time, during the cold war most people got their
red-baiting from J.Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit, Reader's Digest, etc.

I think that the intellectual establishment has really degenerated
> even in their own terms with the crisis.

Well, it's no longer necesasry to understand, just to condemn.

 In France, we are force fed Francois
> Furet and his cronies. 

Though Furet has brains.His book on Marx and the French Revolution isn't bad.

> 	This is not something being done by "us guys"... just the establishment.
> Not my fault mate!

Yes, I know; just teasing.

--jks





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