Breathtaking nastiness - was Re: [lbo-talk] RE: black music makes history

[Dennis Perrin]

> "[Karl Marx] enjoyed the reputation of having acquired great learning, and
> as I knew very little of his discoveries and theories, I was all the more
> eager to gather words of wisdom from the lips of the famous man.  This
> expectation was disappointed in a peculiar way.  Marx's utterances were
> indeed full of meaning, logical and clear, but I have never seen a man
whose
> bearing was so provoking and intolerable.  To no opinion which differed
from
> his own did he accord the honor of even condescending consideration.
> Everyone who contradicted him he treated with abject contempt; every
> argument that he did not like he answered either with biting scorn at the
> unfathomable ignorance that had prompted it, or with opprobrious
aspersions
> upon the motives of him who advanced it.

Maybe Hitch *is* correct to say that he still sees the world as a Marxist .
. .

DP