Re: Communication on Carlo Rosselli

[James Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is Stan any relation to our Michael?


On Wed, 02 Feb 2000 11:50:44 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Dear Mr. Proyect,
>
> I just saw your piece from the ThreePenny Review posted on H-Rad.
> You (and the subscribers of www.marxmail.org) might be interested in
> my
> book, Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile,
> recently
> published by Harvard University Press.
>
> Rosselli was (in the 1920s) the first post-marxist. He once wrote:
>
> "I really do not mean to imply that nothing living or profound
> remains in
> his [Marx's] thought; quite the contrary. No one dremas of proposing
> a
> total (and totally absurd) denial of Marx. . . The son emancipates
> himself
> but he cannot deny his father . . today it is impossible to conceive
> of a
> modern individual, one endowed, that is, with a stong awareness of
> the
> problems of his time, who is not, within certain limits, a
> marxist--meaning
> someone who has not incorporated into his being a whole ensemble of
> truths
> that, though they might with good reason have appeared to be
> revolutionary
> in Marx's time, have been comprehended by modern systems of
> knowledge and
> modern consciousness to such an extent that they have become almost
> banal."
>
> I take the liberty of attaching some info on the book and some
> reviews.
> Yours,
> Stan Pugliese
>
>
>


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