[lbo-talk] More on Literature and Revolution

Mark Bennett bennett.mab at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 16:16:08 PDT 2009


I had no fundamental point; just observing that Montaigne would have recognized the oddity that Joanna described: a college student finishing a class on Marxism and never actually reading anything Marx wrote.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


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> Alan Rudy wrote:
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> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> > > Mark Bennett wrote:
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> > Come now, Carrol, you can do better than this w/o going back to
> > speculating
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> Not this morning! Actually I was merely observing a principle I have
> argued in the past: Don't ask questions without giving _some_ answer
> yourself. Bare questions are usually unprincipled or merely baiting.
> Iwanted to push Mark to comment on his quotation, & I thought I ought to
> offer _some_ comment of my own. I undoubtedly could do better some other
> time. :-)
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> Carrol
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