[Ron] Stalin was anti-intellectual, Marx was intellectual. [Arlo] Yeah, I'd say this is pretty accurate. I mean he had a PhD in Philosophy. Interesting, as its summed on Wikipedia, "he had to submit his dissertation to the University of Jena as he was warned that his reputation among the faculty as a Young Hegelian radical would lead to a poor reception in Berlin." Stupid radicals (voiceover as Peter Griffin).
Marx was interested in a classless society, but I've seen no indication he was in favor of a uneducated or ignorant society, and no indication he was in favor of a profession-less society; much less one without philosophers, artists, writers, etc. I'd say you could make an argument that Marx was not acritical of educational systems that he felt were designed to reproduce slavery to capistocratic "norms". Others have written, for example, about how the Fordist demands of industry structured classroom activity; not only in doling out knowledge in a regulated, clockwork assembly line, but in preparing a generation of workers to think standing and working on an assembly-line was "normal". But, Ron, this is so much distraction, as I'm sure you've surmised. "Marx" was a fish-hook, nothing more, rhetorical master-bate-tion, if you will. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
