Re: [Marxism] Victoria Woodhull and dogmatic Marxism

[Andrew Pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

I want to second Tom's hesitations re the Messer-Kruse book. I picked  it up at 
the library a year or so ago, as I always wanted to know more  about the 
dispute he describes. But I had to put it down after about 20  pages. It was so 
thoroughly dripping with antimarxism and antiMarxist  hatred that I didn't feel 
I could even trust his veracity. I decided it  wasn't worth my time at the 
moment to read it -- not unless I was ready  to search out alternative sources 
without an axe to grind (or at least  with different axes to grind).

  There's a book waiting to be written about this episode but this ain't it.

  In the meantime for an excellent examination of a struggle successfully  
integrating class, national and gender dynamics I heartily second  Louis' 
recommendation at the end of his review of Messer-Kruse of "Salt  of the 
Earth." I saw it recently again after a lapse of about 25 years.  I'd forgotten 
how superb it is.

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