Carrol Cox
Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:33:51 -0800
Louis Proyect wrote: > My only interest in these > sorts of questions is based on the importance of intellectuals being > integrated into socially necessary manual work in developing societies that > have just overthrown capitalism. A rather arcane subject, I know, but one > that is of intense interest to me. I have always argued that communists also have a r ight to have fun, and if their fun consists in intense arcane interests not relevant to revolutionary work in their own country, that is fine. I still read Pound and am subscribed to the Pound and the Milton maillists. But one's arcane private interests shouldn't be allowed to interfere with the process of building a revolutionary movement where one is. We don't live in a country where capitalism has been overthrown. Contempt for intellectuals on the part of intellectuals has always been an extremely serious barrier to political development of revolutionaries in the U.S. Carrol