Gordon Fitch wrote:
>
> Wojtek Sokolowski:
> > I prefer Virgil to Pol Pot or Mao - populist revolutionary credentials of
> > the latter notwithstanding.
>
> Well, now, certainly. Neither Pol Pot or Mao were very good
> at composing top-of-the-line Latin poetry.
(It is mere stupidity or malice to bracket Mao & Pol Pot, but let that pass.)
Mao of course wrote Chinese rather than Latin -- and he happened to write quite good poetry in Chinese. So did Ho in Vietnamese incidentally.
Carrol
P.S. What Wojtek calls the "culturalist left" doesn't exist. It is wholly a creation of his fevered imagination. Of course the habit of making up caricatures of the left to attack is as old as the fear of the working class.