From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 11:32:16 EST
> Perhaps I am > running far ahead of myself here, in terms of what I can personally > accomplish, maybe it's a task for the next generation of researchers - a > challenge, friends! -, but anyway, they cannot say, it didn't cross my > mind > (it crossed my mind in June 1984 matter of fact, when I discovered that > Pierre Frank - who had just died - actually tried to estimate the size of > the world working class for various years). Hi Jurriaan, (For those on the list who don't know anything about him, Pierre Frank was a secretary to Trotsky when he was in exile on Prinkipo and was a leader -- along with others including Ernest Mandel and Livio Maitan -- of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. He was the author of _The Fourth International: The Long March of the Trotskyists_). Were there any details reported about what data, definitions, and methodology he was using? In solidarity, Jerry
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