File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/marxism-thaxis.9712, message 541


Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:41:35 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: M-TH: Re: questions


In private mail to me from Rakesh:

>In the case of Gillott and Kumar's book, does MR publication indicate
>editorial support?  I am not yet convinced by it. But I am happy Monthly
>Review is publishing it. Do you think Frank Fueredi's book on historical
>consciousness is so different from Foster and Wood's (both of whom I like a
>great deal)? In Foster and Wood's book, they include an essay by Kenan
>Malik, who is close to LM.  

LM is mutating rapidly. Their recent TV show would be analogous to the
scene in "The Fly" when Jeff Goldblum starts walking on the ceiling. That
TV show might have helped LM cement ties with the big bourgeoisie which
needs people defending their interests in the name of "Marxism". The down
side is that many traditional Marxists will start to regard LM correctly as
having gone to the other side of the barricades.


By the way, I have a friend who, along with his
>partner, finished a dissertation on contemporary Brazil. He thinks that
>indigeneous activism arose of the military dicatatorship as the tolerated
>form of protest.  I have a copy of his diss here, but have not read it.
>Jonathan is now a professor at the University of Washington. Perhaps I
>should ask him on line. 

I always thought that the indigenous people starting protesting because
they were being murdered. I guess I haven't read enough Carchedi.

>And I do think there is something terribly
>debilitating about neo-Malthusian, zero growth-ism. 

Yes, if I spot somebody promoting these views in the name of Marxism, I
will biff him myself.


As I said, I think LM
>is really wrong about the threat of global warming. And I do think a lot of
>the stupid positions they take in their journal is just to sell papers;
>that's why I pointed to some of the books they have done which are very
>good. Evidently MR editors agree.  Anyways, why not do something useful and
>download that excellent essay on global industrialization by Isidor
>Walliman in Monthly Review a few years back.
>

You don't know the whole story behind LM's book getting picked up by MR. It
would not be violating their confidence to mention that they have a
publishing relationship with Merlin Press, which recommended the book
highly. Watch the pages of MR in the future to see if there is further
interest in LM output. 

>Fuck off
>
>Rakesh
>

You bad boy. Don't you know that naughty language is the sign of an
underdeveloped intellect.

All the best,

Louis Proyect



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