Not familiar with him, but I remember reading IMT's article about his death. Basically they call him a lib and the most telling of how good of a Marxist a person is, is how the bourgeois mass media treats them when they die. The bourgeois mass media wrote glowingly about his life and career.
Yeah that was something I encountered last night reading more about him. Although I'm pretty sure the main source I got that from was a Trotskyist so I wasn't sure how much weight to give it.
that's disappointing, i have some books by him I wanted to read..but yeah, he lived through WWII, and I think it probably broke his heart.
I think they're worth reading still, to be clear. Especially the first three in the series, he isn't so disillusioned until the last one. At least from what I remember. And the criticism isn't all unfounded or bad, I just wish it wasn't framed as if it was the death knell of the project.
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