(OPE-L) Giovanni Arrighi and Mark Jones retrospectives

[gerald_a_levy <gerald_a_levy@xxxxxxx>]

Rakesh and others:  you may find the following retrospective

by Arrighi to be of interest:

http://fbc.binghamton.edu/gaasa96.htm

 

Your mentioning of Arrighi's recent _New Left Review_ article

reminded me, in a strange way, that the death of Mark Jones

has not been noted on this list.  Mark,  who long-time members

might recall from the long-defunct marxism list and the

marxism-international list, died on April 9 after a long illness

with cancer.  He was a young man -- in his 50s.  After making

his (in)famous remarks about _NLR_ in March 1997  on M-INT (and

other equally memorable destructive remarks), he went on to

found the Crash-List which  became the A-List.  He is being fondly,

but uncritically, remembered on many other "marxism" lists.

 

In death as in life we should remember both the good and the

bad.  Mark was very good and very bad.

 

In solidarity, Jerry