I think Desai was one of the Lords appointed by UK Labour whom they
thought--wrongly--would vote to abolish the House of Lords! Once inside the
august association, sufficient of these rebels changed sides to maintain
the institution.
Steve
At 04:08 PM 4/03/2002 Monday -0500, you wrote:
>Lord Meghnad Desai
>
><http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/mdesai/>http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/mdesai/
>
>When was he appointed 'Lord'? Presumably he
>wasn't appointed Lord while Thatcher was the P.M.
>given his biting critique of monetarism (_Testing
>Monetarism_, London, Francis Pinter Ltd., 1981).
>
>Are there any other Marxist 'Lords' now? Who
>was the first Marxist -- while s/he still considered
>her/himself Marxist -- to be appointed Lord? Have
>there been any Marxist knights or Marxists with
>other titles bestowed by royalty?
>
>Am I the only one who finds this to be a rather odd
>title for a Marxist? Did Desai ever publish anything
>explaining why he was accepting this title?
>
>btw, according to amazon.com a book by Desai
>entitled _Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of
>Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism_
>[Verso, ISBN:1859846440] is due to be published
>this month. The Verso site makes no mention of
>this book, though. Does anyone have any more
>knowledge about this?
>
>In solidarity, Jerry
>
>
>
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