Martin Munz — 26 November 2021

Husband, father, brother, gentleman, scholar, staunch comrade, peerless friend and counsel. From A Proletarian Science, 1980, to The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning, forthcoming, Stuart illuminated the general from the particular. In seemingly effortless and lucid prose enlivened with acerbic observation and drollery he communicated to general and specialist readers alike through a stream of written work of erudition and theoretical sophistication. It used to be said that 36 people, by virtue of their fidelity to principle and community, integrity, kindness, generosity and wisdom justified each generation, if not Stuart then who?