Re: Grundrisse question/M. Nicolaus

[Sam Pawlett <rsp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> Does anyone know whatever happened to Martin Nicolaus. In the late 60's he
> gave a great speech excoriating mainstream American sociology to the
> American Sociological Association. Later I saw a book, in the mid to late
> 70's, disputing the Maoist line on "Soviet social-imperialism" and the
> related Soviet question debates.

I believe he taught at my alma mater SFU in Vancouver for a number of
years. He, like all the other Marxists save a few, was fired. I heard he
had his passport stolen by some radical students of his  who then got
involved in
C.America in a big way. They ended up getting life in prison in Brasil
for kidnapping a supermarket magnate to raise funds for the FMLN. This
was mid-80's. I should probably send these kinds of posts offlist.

Sam