doctor disease

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun May 13 07:24:52 PDT 2001


s-t-t at juno.com wrote:
>
> John Halle quotes Orwell:
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> > "Socialism calls up a picture of vegetarians with wilting beards, of
> >[clip]
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> Thanks for the quote, but where is it from? Is it in one of his essays?
>

There is a similar passage in Engels, I believe in _Anti-Duhring_, expressing disapproval just as strongly but with a less moralistic edge than in Orwell.

I bring this up to relate to the threads on both lbo & pen-l in which disapproval and approval are unnecessarily treated as "value judgments" or "moral judgments."

Carrol



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