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To: "H-HOAC-ED-JEH" <haynes@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:51 PM Subject: RE: Sidney Hook and Opposition to Communism Sidney Hook in 1940, as characterised by a contemporary: "Evaluations of Stalin fall into the following categories: (1) Stalinists; (2) Stalinoids; (3) Trotskyites; (4) Lovestonites; (5) Sidney Hook; and (6) human beings .... No one has ever accused Stalin of being Sidney Hook. He is merely Stalin." (Frederick L. Schuman, 'Two Variations on a Russian Theme', _The Saturday Review of Literature_, Vol. XXIV, April 6, 1940, p.10.) HOAC contributors may wish to consider what proportion of this take on Hook was an insult and what proportion an intelligentsia in-joke. Graham Barnfield http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/thirties/thirties%20barnfinal.html
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