[lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky!

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Mon Oct 3 13:09:58 PDT 2005


andie nachgeborenen :

Dead wrong, unless you want to stop thinking.

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CB: If you keep thinking , you will realize I am correct.

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Good writing form does not save bad
> content of ideas. Evil
> literary geniuses get no vote.

Marx disagreed. He was a \great fan of the Royalist Balzac, intended to write a book of literary criticism on Balzac

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CB: But it was not the Royalism of Balzac's ideas that Marx praised rather the exposure of the bourgeoisie. It was the unintended left in Balzac's thinking, the rational kernel. Hitchens, evidently, has been ditching the left in his thinking.



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