Please send this guy free subs

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I am sending this request to the entire PEN-L list because there are so many
people on the list who may be involved in left publications, it is important
to hit all the bases.

A bit of background.  While at the CSE conference this summer, I happened to
meet Laszlo Andor.  He's a Hungarian Marxist, just finishing his Ph D at U. of
Manchester who is involved in Hungary with a group of Marxist Political
Economists at the Budapest University.  He and his group are in a relatively
safe position because:  (get this)  When the end of communism came to Hungary
and the old successful economists and other academics who had occupied the
senior positions LEFT the university to pursue lucrative careers in the
private sector [note all the evidence that in Poland (the most advanced on the
path to capitalism of all the ex-communist nations) the nomenklatura are very
prominent among the new capitalists!], the younger generation became SUDDENLY
the senior academics.  These folks, at least some of them, have imbibed the
theory of socialism and were young enough not to have gotten cynical.  They
now can see the damage that capitalism is doing and want to be part of a new
vibrant intellectual dissenting tradition.

I made him a promise which I'm keeping six months later [mea culpa!] to try
and get his group some free subscriptions to left journals.

So:  I'm making this request of C.N.S., L.B.O, D & S, RRPE, and any other
radical economics journal to send free subscriptions to:

LASZLO ANDOR
RUE Department of Political Science
1093 Budapest
Fovam ter 8

FAX:  (36-1) 1176714

phone:  (36-1) 11880-49

home address 1092 Budapest
             Raday u.43/45

phone:  (36-1)138-4766.

Hope those who publish these journals are reading.  Hope they can afford this
"contribution".  Based on my conversations, these folks are an exciting group.

Hugo Radice had a good long conversation with Laslo as well and hopefully they
will continue to network with British comrades ...

BTW:  Hope the ASSA meetings were good and useful.  Sorry I missed them...
Anyone interested in reporting??  Cheers, Mike

Mike Meeropol
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