True, but it was about charges at "the Moscow trial". The whole case below
if one likes those kind of documents.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937/dewey/
>From: "Bruce Robinson" <bruce.rob@btinternet.com>
>Reply-To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>Subject: Re: remarkable coincidences
>Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:44:59 +0100
>
>
> > I have always heard that Vygotsky knew the work of Dewey and that in
>some
> > way Dewey's ides have had an influence on him.
> > But did you know that Dewey had some links to Moscow himself??
> > I read in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy that:
> > "Dewey's retirement from active teaching in 1930 did not curtail his
> > activity either as a public figure or productive philosopher. Of special
> > note in his public life was his participation in the Commission of
>Inquiry
> > into the Charges Against Leon Trotsky at the Moscow Trial, which exposed
> > Stalin's political machinations behind the Moscow trials of the
>mid-1930s"
> > The time (mid thirties) is right, the location is right. Did Dewey ever
>go
> > to Moscow??
>
>The location is wrong: the Dewey Commission took place in Mexico where
>Trotsky was exiled in 1937. Trotsky had been forced to leave the USSR in
>1929.
>
>Connections - intellectual or personal - between Vygotsky and Trotsky:
>there's a theme I think worth investigating. How about Trotsky as the
>activity theorist of revolutionary politics? Or Vygotsky's original
>introduction to 'Educational Psychology'?
>
>Bruce Robinson
>
>Who did Dewey know among the Moscow circle Psychologists and
> > intellectuals in general? Did Dewey ever know about Vygotsky's ideas and
> > theories?
> > Maybe someone knows??
> >
> > It is very hard to say when some idea will "suddenly" emerge and how
>long
> > did it take to "cook" it, what paths did it traverse, what contexts did
>it
> > touch, how did it change along the way and how did it gain all the
> > significance.
> >
> > It is eery, I agree, but maybe it is possible to study it?? Arne Reithel
> > once made a map with arrows showing the genealogy of western
>philosophical
> > and social scientific ideas and how they travelled from philosopher to
> > another... I know I have it somewhere- but it will take me some time to
> > find it.
> >
> > Ana
> >
> >
> > At 12:14 AM 4/14/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> > >I don't think it is so eery (as i may have in the past)
> > >but only at a gut level, e.g. another coincidence are
> > >some authors close to home who have come to the same
> > >kind of conclusions on the papers they are working on
> > >more or less "independently". maybe the convergences
> > >are something "in the air" so to speak with "air" being
> > >something between an institutional and a global scale --
> > >it may be, in perversion of Durkheim's words, the
> > >current which sweeps us off our feet, and places us on
> > >the same sandbar. And metaphor is only as far as i can
> > >understand it. A really good puzzle, eh?
> > >--
> > >
> > > >
> > > > BB-- monday we have a discussion of co-genetic logic at lchc. And my
> > > > daughter is studying the changing nature of prostitution in the
>globalized
> > > > fourth world.
> > > >
> > > > Put that together with discussion of emergence, charcter development
> > > (thanks
> > > > Peter), the level of coincidence gets kind of eery!
> > > > mike
> > > >
> >
>
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