>He fortunately had never read Adorno or been on a maillist
>with nothing better to do than ask foolish questions.
For guys who consider themselves Marxists, you & Lou Proyect sure bash intellectuals a lot. Last I checked, Marxism differentiated itself from many other kinds of left politics in giving a lot of weight to the importance of thought and analysis - the kind of "foolish" pursuits that "activists" and "populists" like to dismiss as the wank of pointyheads. Perhaps you can explain this apparent contradiction.
Doug