[PEN-L:11992] Re: Gerschenkronism

[Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:07 PM 9/29/99 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
>You got to be careful recommending these authors, Wojtek. There was a big
>witch-hunt in the 1950s to weed out professors who were disciples of
>Alexander Gerschenkron and things are starting to look menacing after Waco
>and other FBI crackdowns. Are you familiar with the story of Lenny
>Lipschitz, a sociology professor here at Columbia who led a secret study
>group on Gerschenkron at his Riverside Dr. residence in 1957? It turns out


No. But the witch-hunt hardly surprises me.  I consider gerschenkronism
more damaging to the US imperial and neo-liberal mythologies (it refutes
the notion than x-USSR was the satan incarnate i.e. a communist state) than
any other school of thought.


wojtek