Cockburn/St. Clair: Enron and the Green Seal

[Peter K.]

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