May 28, 2002

I'm still hunting for the

I'm still hunting for the Gould-Marx connection. Here's a paragraph from the Times of London obituary:

Yet Gould never allowed his political radicalism - which he espoused sometimes in circumstances that demanded a good measure of personal courage - to compromise his belief in individual human rights. Marxism is now long out of fashion, but the beliefs he expounded in the prime of his career could perhaps best be described as those of a libertarian Marxist.

A group of Net-savvy Marxists mourned the death of Gould [note 5.24 entry], but it doesn't explicitly say they considered him a comrade-in-arms.

"Times Obituary: Stephen Jay Gould" [via Peter Pribik]