Engels was a capitalist, an hones-to-god capitalist, He was also anti-capitalist. Not only was there no incompatibility between the two facts, there was not even an aesthetic incongruity. It would have been stupid of him not to continue to be a capitalist. I would love to own a million shares in one of the remaining stable corporations, and it would not embarass me in the least nor in any way be incompatible or aesthetically incongruous with being anti-capitalist. You just didn't think through what you were saying, and calling it an example or a metaphor or whatever does not justify the idiocy of it.
Carrol
Joseph Catron wrote:
>
> Apparently I'm not very good at getting my points across today. So I'll
> spell this out as clearly as possibly:
>
> Pointing out that the beliefs and opinions of others are incompatible with
> their actual lives is a useless waste of time and energy, because it's true
> of pretty much anyone who has opinions or beliefs.
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> Joseph Catron wrote:
> > >
> > > Almost as hypocritical as avowed anti-capitalists with 401(k)s, no?
> >
> > I hope this is with tongue-in-cheek. Because if it's serious it is in
> > the running for the most benighted bit of idiocy ever to have appeared
> > on a compuyter screen.
>
> --
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> lytlað."
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