Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gargoyle.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Reply to JoSH on socialism Message-ID: <228@gargoyle.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 12:18:50 EST Article-I.D.: gargoyle.228 Posted: Mon Oct 28 12:18:50 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 22:00:59 EST References: <227@gargoyle.UUCP> Reply-To: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) Organization: U. of Chicago, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 15 Correction: The article on socialism by Irving Howe that I recommended to JoSH is in the Fall 1985 *Dissent*, i.e. the current issue. *Dissent* is an excellent source for American dem-socialist views. I mentioned Marx's *18th Brumaire*. This is Marx at his finest and is well worth reading even if you have no interest in Marxism, particularly if you are interested in 19th-century France. I suggest reading the first and last sections if you are not sure you want to read the whole thing. It is a first-rate introduction to Marx's theories of history, class struggle, and politics, and in addition is of interest because the subject of the essay, Louis Bonaparte's rise to power, is akin to what we would today call fascism. -- Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes