On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:39:31AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
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> > In fact, this appropriation of Moore and of the tradition to which
> > the particular idea of the "Good" belongs makes Keynes's conception
> > of the "ideal commonwealth" very like Marx's, a fact that explains
> > his claim that "the republic of my imagination lies on the extreme
> > left of celestial space."
>
> Except Keynes was a total snob and racist. Need I quote the classics?
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> Marx wanted to “organize the myriad Lilliputians and arm them with
> poisoned arrows.”
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> "We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust
> erected by the personality and will of a very few, and only
> maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and
> guilefully preserved."
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> "How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish,
> exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the
> intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and
> surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?"
>
> "I do not mean that Russian Communism alters, or even seeks to alter,
> human nature, that it makes Jews less avaricious or Russians less
> extravagant than they were before."
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> "[T]he class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie."
>
> Etc.
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