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I meant that I was wary about the Rockhill. Sounds like a whole lot of guilt by association, which isn’t necessarily wrong, but might not be helpful in terms of critiquing their analytical failures. Maybe that’s ground that Losurdo already covers well enough, and since Rockhill edited Losurdo’s volume, perhaps he didn’t feel the need to tread that ground again. I’m surprised I haven’t seen more reviews that deal with both books in tandem.
For Losirdo, I’m just about finished with War and Revolution (excellent, excellent stuff), and I have Democracy or Bonapartism on deck.
So far my preferred critique of Western Marxism comes from Aijaz Ahmad in In Theory, but it’ll be a few more days until I’m back in the same room as my books and notes so I wouldn’t do a good enough job of articulating why until then.
Interested in your reasoning on Ahmad whenever you have time.
I’ll ping you later in the week. Good excuse to type up my notes from that book, which I’ve been procrastinating on.
What are you reading now?
I'm on a re-read of German Ideology because a new reading group in my party wants to do it and they need me to set up the leading questions. I'm also reading Marx's Inferno, but I've had to slow that one down, though I find it a really intriguing book!
Yeah I'm not a big fan of Rockhill generally, but more because he seems less intensely studied in his subjects than a Losurdo. I have the same critique of Vijay Prashad (though with him i also have strong ideological disagreements). I won't shit talk or argue against Rockhill though, it just feels like his oeuvre is a bit more aimed towards newbies to MLism and I am a bit allergic to hollowness. But I've been spoiled by the likes of Lukasc and Losurdo. But I don't recommend random people to read Losurdo, and I likely will about Rockhill