[PEN-L:29538] Re: Re: Re: Liu on Stiglitz

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please, let's drop the personal stuff.  Personal opinions about Henry, pro
and con, have no place here.

Louis Proyect wrote:

> > And he's making a significant contribution to making the world a less
> > brutal place - more than anyone on this or any other listserv. More
> > than, say, a certain hedge fund guy who lives on the east side of
> > Manhattan who issues grand pronunciamenti from time to time.
> >
> > Doug
>
> Actually Henry Liu does lots of things behind the scenes that might
> actually have an impact on whether or not China retains the kind of
> economy that Stiglitz endorsed at the conclusion of his interview. I
> wish that Henwood would drop this kind of ad hominem attack. He tells
> people in Essen that "there are very few Marx-o-philes on Wall Street."
> If this is supposed to be important after some fashion, one would expect
> Henry's point of view to be a credit rather than a debit to our movement
> broadly interpreted. Finally, the question of making the world a "less
> brutal place" seems to put the cart before the horse. I seriously doubt
> if Soros or Stiglitz would be speaking out today unless there were huge
> mobilizations around the world for the past five years or so against the
> IMF. In many ways, they are the "doves" of the current globalization
> confrontation in the same way that voices such as Gene McCarthy  emerged
> in the 1960s. Without the mass demonstrations, there would have not been
> peace candidates.
>
> --
>
> Louis Proyect
> www.marxmail.org

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Michael Perelman
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