[lbo-talk] Thinking of Heinrich Boll

BklynMagus magcomm at ix.netcom.com
Fri Nov 3 07:52:43 PST 2006



>From GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY:

Aunt Leni, on the other hand, he regarded as being reactionary in the truest sense of the word: it was inhuman, one might even say monstrous, the way she instinctively, stubbornly, inarticulately, but consistently, refused - not only rejected, that presupposed articulation - every manifestation of the profit motive, simply refused to have anything to do with it... She was the inhuman one, not he, for a wholesome striving after profit and property - as had been demonstrated by theology and was being increasingly acknowledged even by Marxist philosophers - was part of human nature.



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