Re: NACLA and Colombia

[Michael Hoover <hoov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >..."most authoritative" according to who?
> >Michael Hoover
>
> Michael, for activists like myself the NACLA Report was an indispensable
> tool during the 1980s.
> Michael Hoover himself told me that Weeks is a Brennerite in good standing.
> Louis Proyect

You didn 't answer my question.  And I don't need lecture on NACLA, I
started reading it in 74 when I had good fortune to have comparative
politics prof assign some readings.

Only reference to John Weeks that I can remember making is in context of
response by certain marxists to Arghiri Emmanuel's failure to consider mode
of production.  I mentioned that Weeks, Bill Warren, Gary Howe, & David
Harvey, for example, had never accepted dependency concept on grounds that
it addresses conditions between nations rather than classes & that it
emphasizes exchange rather than production.  Their heightened criticism
came at time (mid-1970s) when dependency theory was gaining adherents.

I don't know if above makes JW a Brennerite or not.  I don't know what a
Brennerite is.  I guess my problem is that I don't think in such
reductionist terms.   Michael Hoover