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[Marxism] Please comment on: Sweezy signed the infamous 1937 statement defending the Moscow trials


Dear Marxmail guys,
Please make some comment. I like Monthly review and Paul Sweezy.
What is Howe's criticism of Sweezy?
Please advise,
Hal Smith

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How could Sweezy have read Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution and then
sign the infamous 1937 statement to American progressives defending the Moscow
trials? I am more inclined to be critical of fellow travellers than CP members
like Dobb or Ronald Meek who were at least consistent. Irving Howe's critique
of Sweezy in 'Authoritarians of the Left" still stacks up fairly well as do
Joseph Starobin's comments in American Communism in Crisis.

Dr Geoff Robinson
Lecturer Australian Studies & Politics
Faculty of Arts
Deakin University
Warrnambool
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040308/005206.html
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