> On Mar 17, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> Are you talking about individuals or "the society" when you write "we"?
>> As an individual I found out about 50 years ago that I didn't "need" to
>> read newspapers for myown purposes
>
> So you're proud of not really knowing what's going on in the world?
> From your cranky, ossified politics, I'm not surprised, but I would
> have thought you'd have some shame.
Haven't you figured it out? The particular events that occur in the world are just epiphenomena of the set of abstractions described in Vols. 1 through 3 of Capital and Mao's Little Red Book. Why bore yourself with mere shadows on the wall when you could behold The Idea on www.marxists.com?
SA