[lbo-talk] More on Literature and Revolution

[shag carpet bomb]

likely kind of rare though. i mean, it's easily refuted by a look see at 
various syllabi posted on the innert00bz. the student might not have 
bothered, sure - i recall attending plenty of graduate seminars where 
people didn't read the material. but that there was, in the first place, an 
actual course on marx (extremely rare on most college campuses in the u.s.) 
and the person who could be bothered to actually teach such a course 
couldn't be arsed to assign marx? please. this is just mocking the people 
that take the risks they take in trying to teach such a class in the first 
place -- especially in the u.s. where it's a numbers game and it matters 
how many people sign up for a course. so, a course just on marx? not bloody 
likely.

as for the quote, i don't know. it seems like a really, i don't know, old 
and outmoded idea. that there are authors -- and then there are merely 
those who deign to criticize what authors write. and it's all so sad sad 
sad that there aren't people out there interpreting actual *things* instead 
of interpreting interpretation. oh, the tragedy! oh, the horrors of 
contemporary human condition. *rends clothes* *tears at chest*

as for what carrol said, i'm still kind of confused by it. the example 
reminded me of trying to think through the events of and what if questions 
that come up watching Terminator.

At 07:16 PM 4/27/2009, Mark Bennett wrote:
>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:
>
> >
> >
> > Alan Rudy wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Mark Bennett wrote:
> > > > >
> > [clip]
> >
> > > Come now, Carrol, you can do better than this w/o going back to
> > > speculating
> >
> > 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. :-)
> >
> > Carrol
> >
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