[lbo-talk] Gustave Flaubert wrote....

[Shane Mage]

>"Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom."
>from a letter to George Sand in 1867

But remember that "the bourgeois" is meant *adjectivally* and is
virtually synonymous with "the philistine" (as exemplified in
"Bouvard and Pecuchet").  Marxistic it is not.

Shane Mage

  "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,

  living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62