[Marxism] Dwight Macdonald and Robert Duncan

[David Thorstad]

As Louis noted, Macdonald "dropped any pretensions to Marxism," but that 
hardly says everything significantabout the man. For one thing, to his 
credit, he and his wife were among the very few Americans who offered 
assistance to Victor Serge when he had been abandoned by almost everyone 
else. For any who might not be familiar with it, I recommend Susan 
Weissman's biography, /Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope /(Verso, 
2001).
    Here's a good summary of Macdonald:

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404704070.html

    I should have noted that Robert Duncan's article was cited in a note 
to Christopher Phelps's feature on H. S. Small's "Socialism and Sex" in 
/New Politics/. It is, of course, also to Macdonald's credit that he 
published Duncan's piece.
David