[lbo-talk] Re: lefties, fullfilment

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 19 12:13:44 PST 2005


frank scott wrote:


>"...my idea of cushiness includes the time and capacity for intellectual
>and
>aesthetic engagement..." doug
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>the old man would seem to have agreed:
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>"...The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the
>theater, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love,
>theorize, sing, paint... The less you are, the more you have; the less
>you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life..." karl

And it's no accident, as the vulgar Marxists used to say (to pinch a phrase from John Leonard).

Doug



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