[lbo-talk] women opting out!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 16 09:44:50 PST 2006


Carrol Cox wrote:


>I suggest you reread KM, Thesis III, with particular emphasis on the
>phrase, "the educator himself needs educating."
>
>Mass movements do not consist of people dedicated to Socrates' vicious
>claim that "The unexamined life is not worth living." Translated into
>19th century terms, Socrates was proclaiming that the only good inidan
>was a dead indian. Translated into 20th century terms, Socrates was
>providing the basis for the Final Solution. Translated into 21st century
>terms, Socrates was proclaiming that any american focused on earning a
>living was mere shit.

I suggest that you stop lecturing people in such a patronizing fashion. In your aggressive anti-elitism, you come off as the arrogant bearer of revealed truth. Your translations into the 19th, 20th, and 21st century demotic are actually a bunch of crap. It's really odd when retired professors of Milton and Pound take on the anti-intellectual role in pursuit of proletarian authenticity.

Doug



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