My friend and colleague died on Thursday night

[malaise]

Louis Lindsay was a UWI (University of the West Indies) and Yale graduate. He was a freaking genius of a political scientist.

Here's one of his great papers. He got it right 41 years ago.

http://www.normangirvan.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/the-myth-of-independence-louis-lindsay.pdf

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. I am sorry for your loss. nt

[LiberalArkie]

2. Thank you. Sorry for your loss.

Independence in Jamaica ?

Is that akin to Independent Puerto Rico and Haiti?

[hobbit709]

3. Interesting reading.

[malaise]

5. If you really want to understand neo-liberalism - read

Norman Girvan or Kari Levitt on the subject (at Norman's link). Kari is Karl Polanyi's daughter - a wonderful lady - now in her 90s.

[jalan48]

13. I'm sorry to hear about your friend.

Karl Polyani, he called the industrial factories of 1800's England "Satanic Mills".It was a real form of dystopia foisted upon the populace, pre-labor movement.

[malaise]

18. The Great Transformation - was feted at Warwick a few years ago

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/features/polanyi/

[jalan48]

19. I read it years ago. The part about England in the 1800's really stuck with me.

Closing down the commons and forcing people into large cities where they would have to work in the capitalist's factories. Charles Dickens stuff. Thanks for the reminder about the book. I will check out the link.

[Enthusiast]

39. Sounds like a frightening possible future.

Our ruling capitalists are attempting to engage in a race to the bottom.

[polly7]

4. I'm so sorry, malaise.

HE sounds like a great man. I only read the first few pages but it's very interesting and I plan to read the rest later.

Peace and strength to you and all that knew and loved him.

RIP, Louis Lindsay.

[malaise]

32. The thing is he died on election night

which is irony on steroids - I just wish he hadn't been in a coma and had survived the timing of the results.
He hadn't been well for some time - he's finally in perpetual peace - the pain is over.

[polly7]

58. Aw, that's too bad.

I'm so sorry.

But you're right, the most important part is that he no longer has to live in pain. Peace to you, malaise.

[tk2kewl]

6. peace

[Octafish]

7. Please accept my deepest sympathies and condolences, malaise.

You are my Sister and I feel pain when you feel pain.

Thank you for sharing your friend's work with us. Actions speak louder than words. Good deeds come from proper action.

A quick scan of "The Myth of Independence" includes reference to Dr. Frantz Fanon. The guy helped peel the blinders off my eyes.



Fanon consistently insisted that genuine struggle for independence was not in Algeria (nor can it be
elsewhere) simply anarchic expressions of accumulated anger. If the commitment to change and
collective redemption is a serious one, the process of becoming liberated will itself help to create (in fact
will be essential in creating) the dynamic “of building, or organizing, of inventing the new society that
must come into being” {37, p. 104}.

[KamaAina]

8. I'll look for his name in the "Necrology" in the back of our alumni magazine

-KamaAina, Y'85

[Divernan]

24. My son was Yale '86. Were you Pierson College, by any chance?

Or hear a Yale band called Beauty Constant? He played bass guitar. Here's a little 80's rock if you're in the mood.

http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2009/08/beauty-constant-like-enemy-1987.html

[KamaAina]

57. You've mentioned this before.

I remember Beauty Constant, but I was in Saybrook and seldom if ever got over to Pierson.

[Solly Mack]

9. I'm sorry, malaise.

[ybbor]

10. My condolences to you and your friend's family

Stay strong!

[pacalo]

11. I'm so sorry, malaise.

[bbgrunt]

12. ...

[mfcorey1]

14. Wise men leave their footprints in the sand. May peace be

with you in the loss of your friend.

[passiveporcupine]

49. Great saying

Only if I were to write it, I'd say "An ordinary man leaves his footprints in the sand, wise men leave their footprints in granite".

Very sorry for your loss Malaise. You were lucky to know such a man.

[redwitch]

15. I am sorry for your loss malaise.

I am glad he left some good work behind.

[Festivito]

16. Kind of you to so remember your friend.

Independence from defunct colonialists does leave independence with new meaning, and I would suggest no direction -- for us. It is best for us to understand how others might view such independence from us as we create the same for them as it was before for us.

Prescient fellow.

[Chan790]

17. Sorry for your loss...and really, the world's.

As I was reading The Myth of Independence: Middle Class Politics and Non-Mobilization in Jamaica I instantly thought it seemed familiar...it was part of the curriculum of my Freshman year "Intro to Comparative Politics" course. I hadn't remembered it but it had a longer impact on my view of political theory, international relations, and neocolonialism; the issues herein were not things I had ever thought about previously.

Being a Poli. Theory major rather than a Poli. Sci. major, we're often largely isolated from the real-world impacts of the philosophical questions that form the bedrock of our curriculum. It's glaring the first time you realize that the answers to these "bloodless" questions can have tangible real-world impacts.

It is an exceptional paper and one that more people outside of the political fields-of-study should read.

[mckara]

20. Thank You, My Condolences

[yellerpup]

21. Heartfelt condolences for your loss.

It's hard to lose a friend, especially one as special as Louis Lindsay.

[etherealtruth]

22. I am sorry for your loss, Malaise

[Hortensis]

23. We don't have enough fine thinkers. and friends,

that it doesn't hurt to lose them. Searching on his name pulled up many references to his work, and this paper in particular, but I noticed he doesn't have a Wikipedia entry. I don't know if you care about Wikipedia, but it still seems inappropriate. Perhaps someone might add one?

[malaise]

25. Here's one of his daughters

http://womenstudies.wisc.edu/professional-pages/lindsay.htm

I'll ask her about Wiki next week

[Hortensis]

28. I saw her when I searched and wondered.

Obviously the legacy is passed on.

[monmouth4]

30. So sorry for the loss of your friend malaise..n/t

[Omaha Steve]

26. .

[brer cat]

27. sorry for your loss, malaise

[mcar]

29. So sorry malaise

[Dr. Xavier]

31. Condolences to you and your friend's family

unfortunately, words can sometimes be insufficient but please be aware that our thoughts and prayers could be some comfort.

[SoapBox]

33. I am very sorry to hear about this.

My condolences.

[Arazi]

34. My deepest sympathy malaise

[Divernan]

35. Shakespeare: Precious friends hid in death's dateless night

I'm sorry for the loss of your friend. Being in my 7th decade, I've lost too many friends. I find comfort in this sonnet - I hope you can as well.

SONNET 30

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:

Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,

And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:

Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er

The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.

[malaise]

36. Nice

[mountain grammy]

37. So sorry for your loss, Mailaise.

Thank you for the post. My cousin has lived in Jamaica for 40 years and I was lucky enough to finally visit a few years ago. What a wonderful experience. Stayed in the Long Bay area with my cousin, touring that side of the island in her old Subaru.

Beautiful place. Looking forward to reading you're friend's work.

[MrMickeysMom]

38. malaise...

I'm sorry for your loss. Many other's are included, I'm certain. Thanks for sharing his work!

[Enthusiast]

40. Sorry about the loss of your friend and colleague, malaise.

[Tab]

41. I'm just starting to get through this paper

but obviously someone with some brains was behind it. I'm sorry for your loss, but also OUR loss (in general) of a good thinker.

- Tab

[malaise]

44. When Louis was a teenage boy in high school

he'd try to make his classmates read political works- Marx, Trotsky, Garvey et al.

[Vinca]

42. I'm so sorry for your loss.

[merrily]

43. I am so sorry for your loss. I am bookmarking your post so I can read his paper another time.

Peace to all who mourn him.

[Initech]

45. Sorry to hear that.

That happened to me last year, I know how it feels.

[TheBlackAdder]

46. Stay strong through this trying time, Maliase. I'm sure he touched and influenced many people. nt

[TBF]

47. :(

[Duppers]

48. So sorry.

Some wonderful people aren't replaceable in our lives.

My sympathy flows to you.

[spanone]

50. .....

[Liberal_in_LA]

51. ..

[rjsquirrel]

52. Sincere condolences

He was indeed a great scholar.

[Overseas]

53. So sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing his work with us.

[RKP5637]

54. I'm saddened to hear that, malaise.

[robhalf4369]

55. Sorry to hear that

May he rest in peace.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

56. I am so sorry for your loss, my dear malaise...

It is so hard to go forward without them...I know.

[cwydro]

59. My condolences Malaise.

I know we don't always agree (except about Serena!), but I'm sorry you've lost a friend.

I find this happening more and more as I grow older. Sigh.

[countryjake]

60. All my sympathies, malaise.

Peace to you and all who loved him.

[awoke_in_2003]

61. So sorry, mailaise. nt

[mmonk]

62. My condolences and thanks for sharing.

[2naSalit]

63. My Condolences

[librechik]

64. RIP Louis Lindsay

condolences, malaise.

[malaise]

65. Thanks all