http://crookedtimber.org/2004/02/29/sweezy-dies/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:56:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/02/29/sweezy-dies/comment-page-1/#comment-19620 from brad'I'm not a commie' delong Mon, 01 Mar 2004 03:29:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1158#comment-19620 I would like Paul Sweezy to be remembered for the following passage: "The publication in 1952 of Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR would make possible today a more satisfactory reply.…In the light of [Stalin’s] explanation…I would like to amend the statement which Mr. Kazahaya criticizes.…[The amended statement] conveys my meaning more accurately than the original wording and is, I think entirely in accord with Stalin’s view." (Paul Sweezy (1953), The Present as History (New York: Monthly Review Press), p. 352.) Paul Sweezy called himself an intellectual. Paul Sweezy publicly revised his opinion on an analytical issue in order to agree with the position taken by a genocidal tyrant. Fill in the blank: Paul Sweezy was a ________. I would like Paul Sweezy to be remembered for the following passage: “The publication in 1952 of Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR would make possible today a more satisfactory reply.…In the light of [Stalin’s] explanation…I would like to amend the statement which Mr. Kazahaya criticizes.…[The amended statement] conveys my meaning more accurately than the original wording and is, I think entirely in accord with Stalin’s view.” (Paul Sweezy (1953), The Present as History (New York: Monthly Review Press), p. 352.) Paul Sweezy called himself an intellectual. Paul Sweezy publicly revised his opinion on an analytical issue in order to agree with the position taken by a genocidal tyrant. Fill in the blank: Paul Sweezy was a ____.

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