[lbo-talk] Inorganic Intellectuals and the Mythical Ideal of the Marxist Tradition (Re: Moderation)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 14 16:57:24 PST 2007


On Jan 14, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>
> Notice that I'm not saying that we as individual human beings are not
> of the people -- most of us are in fact from working-class backgrounds
> or remain wage workers as I am. I'm talking about our _ideas_. Our
> ideas are for the people -- 99.99% of Americans -- but not of the
> people, in the sense that most of them do not share them. That is
> neither our fault nor their fault -- that's just a fact.

Yes, it's true, but what's so good about the people's ideas?

Doug



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