Cockburn/St. Clair: Enron and the Green Seal

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Mon Dec 24 08:52:41 PST 2001


Carl:
>Like everything else, useful disputatiousness can yield
diminishing marginal
>returns and become counterproductive when carried to merely
peevish
>extremes. Consider Carl Schurz's thoughts on seeing Marx in
Cologne during
>the summer of 1848:


>From Francis Wheen's biography (p. 194):
"[Marx] often quoted Dante's maxim, *Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti* -- go your own way and let tongues wag. What he admirded in the British co- operative pioneer Robert Owen was that whenever any of his ideas became popular he would immediately say something outrageous to make himself unpopular all over again."

Peter



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