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[Justin Schwartz]

Sure. Who wants the hoi poloi to read someone who pours scorn on those who 
would set the state free? In the FSU and the ex-bloc, "Marxist" education 
was based on indigestible boring texts, and not on Marx. I once had a smart 
Ukrainian emigre student, an engineer, who was absolutely astounded when he 
came to read Marx after growing up with a M-L education in the former USSR. 
"No wonder they don't teach this!" he said. "They wouldn't last a week if 
they did!" It didn't chamnge his mind--except about Marx. --jks


>From: Dennis Robert Redmond <dredmond at efn.org>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Labels
>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:29:00 -0700 (PDT)
>
>On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Marta Russell wrote:
>
> > No, but wouldn't we expect more from a Marxist state that this?
>
>More tales from Theory-land: someone from Hong Kong, who ought to know,
>was recounting the fact that Marx and the Western Marxists are
>horrendously scandalous on the mainland. You can get ahold of the texts,
>of course, just like HK movies and Web-porn, but heaven help the
>intellectual who actually tries to teach the stuff, let alone cross the
>theory-praxis divide by hanging out with independent trade unionists.
>Very, um, Taiwanese of them, no?
>
>-- Dennis
>

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