Intellectuals vs. activism

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 6 05:55:21 PDT 2002



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> > He wasn't hired by the philosophy dept. He's also not a hard leftist.
>jks
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>I noticed Singer signed a recent petition advocating divestment from
>Israel.
>Do his repudiations of Marxism mark him as merely a "soft" leftist?

No. I distinguished between Marxists and other kinds of hard leftists. I am the latter myself. Singer takes good positions on lots of things, but his approach is indivisualistic and nonstructural. For example, his solution to world hunger is individual charity. Anyway, he's not in the Princeton phil dept, so you are changing the subject.

jks

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