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Reviewers of two new books of work by Milt Gross, one of them titled "Is Diss a System?", point out that unbeknownst to most of us, the phrase in that title was not originated by R. Crumb, who used it on a cover of Zap Comix. I had assumed Crumb used it to refer ironically to the systems analysis then prominent in business/academia/the military, and/or to criticisms of systems by radicals, or both. Which may be the case, but he didn't originate the phrase. So now the question is: What did Gross mean by it? (It also appears in a Lorenz Hart lyric, but the website mentioning that doesn't know the origin either.) ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
