[lbo-talk] Rupert Murdoch as a young Marxist

Percival Myers permaceaem at gmail.com
Fri Dec 10 00:01:48 PST 2010


At 06:19 17 11 10, Michael Pollak wrote:


>Did everyone else know this except me?
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>Young Rupert had gone up to Oxford in 1950, where despite being a
>lackluster student he distinguished himself as a leading campus Marxist.
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> From the cover story on Murdoch in the November Harper's by Marvin Kitman.

There is an old or very old saying that seems applicable here:

The young man who is not liberal, has no heart. The old man who is not conservative, has no brain.

Right or wrong, Murdoch seems to have taken it to an extreme. The boomerang effect seems apropos, given his original nationality.

Percy



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