>To avoid misconstrual, and to stick to my metaphor: I think Justin is
>attempting to give adult answers to childish questions. And that is
>usually a waste of breath. For the most part those who babble of Marx's
>(or Marxists') "economic determinism" simply don't know what they are
>saying, and are not about to take any answer except simple confirmation
>seriously. They will not be able to _see_ or _hear_ any answer which
>does not conform to their mechanical presuppositions, and those
>mechanical presuppositions make the phrase "Marx's economic determinism"
>a mere tautology.
Did you talk to your students this way? Or are you more of a human being in person?
Doug