----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 2:12 PM Subject: Re: Buckley and Posner
> Bentham does not "resolve" the contradiction. He squshes it.
> Incidentally, Henry James comes close to making Marx's cultural point
in
> the Preface to the New York Edition of _The American_. In that novel a
> French aristocratic family rejects the marriage of their daughter to a
> "vulgar" rich American. In the Preface (written several decades later)
> James says, it would never have been like that. The French
"aristocrat"
> would have glummed on to the money without an instant's hesitation.
>
> Carrol
>
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Theodore Lowi's "The End of the Republican Era" does a great job of tracing the attempts by conservatives to navigate the non-compossibilities.
Ian