[lbo-talk] yakking about the right

[Eubulides]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:


> Heh?  The US invented French Theory.
>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee91

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That's just intellectuals constructing parlor game positional goods.

There is no better pair of examples than the US' reaction to Marx and
Keynes; today only a tiny, tiny fraction of US citizens know of de
Tocqueville or Blackstone or Heidegger.

Even Einstein no longer seems to be a household name in the US. Hell,
how many know of the folks who invented Oxycodone?