<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=todda39@hotmail.com href="mailto:todda39@hotmail.com">Todd Archer</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 28, 2002 5:22 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Determinism</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>R said:<BR><BR>>i believe what you're describing, joe, could be called the religion of <BR>>marxism. marx had sense enough to say he wasn't a marxist. the marxist <BR>>fanatics dogmatically picking over Marx's writings, like so many >medieval <BR>>scholars nitpicking biblical interpretations, renders the >life, <BR>>intelligence and vitality of marx into a dead, useless lump of >words.<BR><BR>Whoa.  Stay away from any literature courses.  You'll hate them.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>thanks for the suggestion, todd.   i'll stick to carrol's third rate detective fiction.  OK?    </FONT></DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> <DIV><BR><BR>>by the way, does anyone care to comment on Marx's anti-Semitism? or >have i <BR>>missed that discussion?<BR><BR>Yeah, I saw something about that.  And that he fucked his wife's maid.  And <BR>that he endorsed the murder of hostages held by the Paris Commune.  And that <BR>he had a poisonous, domineering personality.  Are you going somewhere with <BR>your revelation.<BR><BR>Todd</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>nope.   just curious.    i'm in the middle of a good third rate crime novel at the moment....     ;-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>R</FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. <BR><A href="http://www.hotmail.com">http://www.hotmail.com</A><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>