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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=furuhashi.1@osu.edu href="mailto:furuhashi.1@osu.edu">Yoshie Furuhashi</A>
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<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> Sunday, June 30, 2002 1:07 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Determinism</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>At 2:37 PM -0700 6/29/02, R wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>You are not "thinking for yourself" here, as what you wrote
above<BR></DIV>
<DIV>which a spirit<BR>of proselytism makes an essential part" ("Thoughts on
French<BR>Affairs," 1791). In short, your rhetoric is stuck on the right
in<BR>the 18th century!<BR>--<BR>Yoshie<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT color=#000080>yoshie, i'm surprised at
you. i've grown accustomed to your comments being the even
tempered voice of reason so often on this message
board. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT color=#000080>the fact that the
charge about marxism being a secular religion is old or has parallels in the
18th century is irrelevant. it's still true that
marxism is accepted in many quarters with faith at the level of religion;
true long ago and true now.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>I rather doubt that Marxism is "accepted in many quarters" in the USA at
all, much less "with faith at the level of religion." Where is evidence
for your assertion?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>i should have stated "accepted in many marxist
quarters" to make it super easy for you to follow. i wasn't
talking solely about the USA, yoshie; you're being a bit parochial.
in the USA the left wing was emasculate and spaed during the McCarthy
era. Today, it's nonexistent.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080>Evidence? The same place you
keep the evidence for your assertion.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV>At 2:37 PM -0700 6/29/02, R wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT color=#000080>most politics produces a
reaction in the "true believers" that is indistinguishable from religious
faith.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Eric Hoffer, _The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements_,
1951. A Cold-War classic.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080>read it about 45 years ago.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV>You and Joe have learned what to think and how to talk about Marxism from
what the dominant ideology says about it (and other revolutionary movements) and
how it says it, though it appears you haven't realized that. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080>my uncle was a communist in france, yoshie, dating back
to pre WW II days. he grew up in alsace- lorraine, where he was regularly
beaten up by young nazis on his way home from school. while living
in paris, i spoke with him and with his friends who were marxists, and other
varieties of communists, and true believers further left than
that. i learned first hand. it was an
interesting and enlightening experience for an ignornant young punk straight
from the fascist harbors of the USA.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080>the dominant ideology of the politically ignorant USA
is not what i accept as an authority on Marxism or anything else, except neo
fascism which it exemplifies. in your world,
yoshie, saying someone uncritically accepts the dominant political ideology (if
you can call it that) of the US is an insult. saying they
don't realize it is also an insult. again, i'm surprised at your
lack of manners.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>Please yoshie, although it suits your biases to believe
so, Joe and I are not the same person.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>I recommend that you read conservative thinkers' works on Marxism (and
other revolutionary movements). Start with David Hume perhaps, given what
you say below.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080>thanks, yoshie, i guess. are you
stating that David Hume wrote about marxism? That would
be a neat trick for hume....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV>At 2:37 PM -0700 6/29/02, R wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT color=#000080>to make the blanket
generalization that pointing out the connection between political fanaticism
and religious fanaticism, political faith and religious faith was brought
forward in the 18th century only establishes that the fact was known
centuries ago and is still true.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>What is political fanaticism? Religious fanaticism? Political
faith? Religious faith? What is faith? A strongly held
belief? Are faith and fanaticism the same thing? You've yet to
define what they mean, much less prove the connection between them and explain
what the connection means.</DIV>
<DIV>-- <BR>Yoshie</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>sorry, yoshie. you'll have to do that
yourself. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080>R</FONT></DIV>
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