how do you get people to commit Was: Americans' concerns

[William S. Lear]

On Monday, June 28, 1999 at 11:04:52 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>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. ...

Yeah, and as Adorno himself said:

     In  the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other

     than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

     ---Theodor  Adorno,  *Minima  Moralia:  Reflections  from Damaged

     Life*, Verso, 1994, p. 28.

which I kinda like.

Bill