The left: still dying (was Re: European Unions)

[Dennis]

> That's because in an anti-intellectual attack, "academic" &
> "intellectual" are ideological conflated & used interchangeably.
> That is why DP can get away with attacking Engels (of all
> leftists!!!) as an instance of "academic Marxism," though Engels was
> not an academic.
>
> Yoshie

Zounds! Someone actually attacked Freddie E. ("of all leftists!!!")?! Oh,
that was me.

Actually, Yosh, I didn't attack Engels (whom I've come to admire in Francis
Wheen's bio of Marx, a very readable text, I might add); I criticized the
use of his prose to help modern workers understand the capitalist web in
which they are enmeshed. Clear translation, "Engels for Dummies" if you
will, seems to me a better bet -- assuming that Engels is the best person to
make the case these days.

DP