Ron, Arlo, Priceless. Ian
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:21 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[email protected]> wrote: > [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 > 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
