Time to bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial?

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Nov 3 07:31:07 PST 1998


Max,

What is it that you find valuable in Marx ?

Charles Brown


>>> Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> 11/03 9:54 AM >>>
> This whole discussion of Jefferson seems to me to smack of presentism.
> We can't judge Jefferson's thoughts and actions by present day
> standards, we have to judge him within the context of his day. . . .

Quite right. The specifics of this case aside, we could just as easily dismiss Marx for being a sexist or overly fond of hamburgers, or any other figure from the past for some deviation for contemporary left mores.

MBS



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