Hacker News Reader

He has wide, eclectic musical tastes too -- country and western.

All four named authors were communists. In attempting to demonstrate diversity, they accidentally demonstrated the opposite.

It would be like bragging about the diversity of people that you listen to today, and then listing Bill O’Reilly, Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, and Tucker Carlson. Yes, that's a lot of work by a bunch of different people, but you're not really getting exposed to the full range of thought in our culture.

It also doesn't fit in with even 'covering the high novelty/obscure ones' like if he listed say Georgists, and Mercantalists, and Cameralists.

Well, it's not exactly everything, is it?

“Everything from A to C.”

More seriously, reading these writers is really basic stuff for any humanities graduate curriculum...and the book under review is authored by a well-known Oxford don.

For what it’s worth not a lot of Marxists themselves have read Marx, and a guy like Gramsci wasn’t that popular outside of Italy and a few select circles until not that long ago. It baffles me though why people still spend time reading Bourdieu, he reminds me of “champagne socialism”.

I wasn't aware of the term "champagne socialism", thanks for sharing that.