Mel Watkins
Mel Watkins
Mel Watkinsis a Canadian political economist and activist. He is professor emeritus of economics and political science at the University of Toronto. He was a founder and co-leader with James Laxer of the Waffle, a left wing political formation within the New Democratic Party that advocated an "independent socialist Canada" and Canadian nationalism...
although fighting fights-and-fighting
He wasn't defeated. Although he was bitter, he was still fighting to reconstruct that image.
amazingly complex people
This is an amazingly complex man. Intelligent -- and he was anything but what people take him to be.