Re: [OPE-L] W J Blake clarification requested

From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 14:04:12 EST


On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:47:16 -0500
  Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM> wrote:
> Re: [OPE-L] Fw: W J Blake clarification requested> I also have this suspicion that Raya
>Duyanevskaya (a pseudonym I
>> have been told) was Shoul's nom de guerre. But I have no way of
>> proving it.
>
> No, but  Dunayevskaya did for a while use the pseudonym
> of "Freddie Forrest"
  I was told that Dunayevskaya was itself also a psuedoynm.
I think the earliest published writings by RD were on the Soviet economy in the 1940s.
Johnson-Dunayevskaya (or Johnson-Shoul) would not have sounded quite right, I don't think.
So perhaps the need for a second psuedoynm Forest.

Yours, Rakesh



while she was a member of the Socialist Workers
> Party (SWP) in the US.   She was a leader of an opposition tendency
> within the SWP called the "Johnson-Forrest Tendency".   J.R.
> Johnson was the pseudonym for C.L.R. James.
>
> In solidarity, Jerry


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