Rhetorical Gestures (was Re: Spivak sez...)

[Carl Remick]

>Charles: I'm from Philadelphia. I read some Benjamin Franklin. In _Capital_ 
>Marx says the "celebrated Franklin" got the labor theory of value correct ( 
>As I recall  beyond Ricardo to Marx's view).  Franklin was a natural 
>science experimenter in electricity;  and he united theory and practice as 
>a successful bourgeois revolutionist.  Franklin owned presses too. He 
>founded the Philosophical Society that still exists in Philadelphia.

Certainly no one celebrated Franklin as much as Franklin did.  IMO, he can 
be credited as the father of public relations on the strength of his 
relentlessly self-promoting autobiography alone.

Carl

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