Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> --- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 10:34 PM 2/8/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
> > >I'm almost of two minds when it comes to the
> > election this year. While I
> > >know we need to get rid of BushCo, I'm pretty
> > certain that if they get
> > >re-elected, they'll screw everything up so badly
> > that the Republican party
> > >may go away forever or at least become as
> > insignificant as they were in
> > >the 1930s.
> >
> > Its funny, but you sound just like Republicans did
> > in 1992.
> >
> > JDG - Just reverse a few key terms.
>
> Or like Karl Marx, actually. Enhancing the
> contradictions, isn't that what the Marxists called
> it? :-) Been a long time since I read any Marxist
> philosophy, and I will admit I didn't pay that much
> attention when I was supposed to be studying it...
Marx isn't very good reading, IMO.
I've read some Marx. He didn't write well. You do a lot better to get
your point across to more people if you can write well. (He also didn't
take into account human nature.)
One really good way to get a point across, IMO, is to produce
well-written science fiction on the subject. :) And if you write about
aliens, you don't have to take into account *human* nature. :D
Julia
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