[lbo-talk] Strauss alert

socialismorbarbarism socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 14:33:59 PDT 2011


Chuck Grimes: "Jaffe? What do distinguished fellows do at the Claremont Institute?"

Apparently, they spew homophobic bile, compare themselves to Jews persecuted under the Nazis... and get published in the New York Times. ;)

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
> Joanna: "Have at it, Chuck."
>
> Chuck vs. the writer of the article,  Harry Jaffa? It hardly seems
> fair. Jaffa is a fat duck in a shallow barrel... (socialismorbarbarism)
>
> -------
>
> Thanks. But how can I sell the sixty pages I wrote on the SOB? Nobody I know
> will read it. I even wrote my old German literature professor and she
> wouldn't read it either. She suggested Martin Jay. But I was too chicken
> shit to write him. This was last year. He had just come out with a book
> titled, The Virtues of Mendacity, A History of Lying in Politics.
>
> Jaffe? What do distinguished fellows do at the Claremont Institute? If you
> really want to understand Strauss, Aristotle is not the way. The way leads
> to Spinoza.
>
> Then there is Nietzsche on the Christians. What a guy. Beautiful hard ass
> motherfucker much like Sand and Bienvenisti.
>
> As for Strauss, I discovered another interesting thing recently. Strauss
> looked about fourteen in his German army uniform photo in WWI. He was very
> short (read too short) and so he should have been carded at the Belgian
> prostitutes' parlor.
>
> But you know, life is stranger than shit. I have actually come to a relation
> with Strauss. Not his ideas, but his problems as a man lost in a century
> that was totally beyond him.
>
> What of the consequences of his thought? Just look at Israel. The proper
> parallel was Sparta and not Athens.
>
> CG
>
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