--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At what point do we get to say that he was full of > it > > and move on, really? > > I'm not sure about that. In many many ways his > ideas are both wrong and > dangerous. His focusing on classes and the > inevitability of class > struggle, his inability to see the possibility of > moderation and compromise > all are firm foundations for the evil done in his > name. Yet, his works are > not without valid points. I think his work on the > origin of alienation is > good. The historical dialectic is a worthwhile > tool. > Dan M.
OK, Dan, your philosophy is better than mine, and I agree with you about his work on alienation, although I wasn't terribly impressed by it (I admit that my response after reading it was something along the lines of "So what?"). But wasn't the historical dialectic more Hegel's work? ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
