On 19 Apr 2010 at 20:21, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: > [Ron] > Stalin was anti-intellectual, Marx was intellectual. > > [Arlo] > Yeah, I'd say this is pretty accurate.
Marx, the darling of many intellectuals past and present, sanctioned totalitarianism: "Of course, in the beginning this (the revolution) cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property . . ." (parens added) -- Communist Manifesto "As in Europe, in the 1920s and 1930s numerous American intellectuals sympathized or joined the Communist Party in the United States as young activists." -- Wikipedia The haste by some here to defend Marx speaks volumes. Platt . 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
