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Just in case anyone is wondering: The French-sounding guy was the last editor of Marxism Today, the CPGB's theoretical journal, and the leading eurocommunist theorist in Great Britain back in the 1980s.


The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Mon Feb 18th, 2008 at 09:58:58 AM EST
and certainly a relevant item of background to have. Thanks!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Feb 18th, 2008 at 10:17:27 AM EST
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The resource restraints are certainly there: I recall the excellent diagram you posted a while back entitled 'How Long Will it Last?'

According to it: If the rest of the world uses resources at 1/2 the rate of the US, then we have only 4 years left of Indium - required for making LCD screens. Things like that stick in your mind ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Feb 18th, 2008 at 12:34:43 PM EST
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Yes, but it's also worth pointing out that most of the Marxism Today people ended up signing the Euston Manifesto. Praising "muscular (neo)-liberalism for attacking the correct enemies, they failed to notice or even care who was in the driving seat or what the final destination might be.

Stalin had a phrase for them, "useful idiots".

I don't think Jacques went that far, but by being part of Demos he's certainly a paid-up Blairite. So he might as well have signed the damn thing.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Feb 18th, 2008 at 01:10:40 PM EST
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Well, I only recently noticed he's still writing (and didn't know about his involvement in Demos) - but he does seem to have distanced himself from blairism quite a lot lately: (1, 2 [scary title though])

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Mon Feb 18th, 2008 at 02:11:08 PM EST
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