[lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 16 17:22:38 PST 2009


At 05:10 PM 1/16/2009, Shane Mage wrote:


>In 1964 I read Adorno's "Versuch uber Wagner" and found it a totally
>wrongheaded work filled with jealous spite.

That was a long time ago. Ever thought of giving it another try? Maybe you had a bad translation.


>Dennis's summary of
>Adorno, consisting only of stupid
>anachronisms, demonstrates his worthlessness. "scripts fawning on the
>Wilhelmine Empire" indeed--every Wagner libretto was drafted long
>before the very conception of the "Wilhelmine Empire!"

Are you one of those scholar-squirrels Gore Vidal complains about?



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