At 09:51 AM 7/4/2007, Arlo wrote: >I don't agree with all of Marx's ideas, but I do know his concern was >individual liberty. Unlike Strauss, however, Marx overestimates the >intelligence and nature of man. Strauss sees people as too weak and stupid and >in need of controlling. Marx saw man as wanting, and demanding, a egalitarian >world. You can criticize Marx for thinking too highly of man, I suppose, and >loft up Strauss to prove how base and selfish we are by nature.
Greetings Arlo, I agree with you. When I read the Communist Manifesto, I was expecting a diatribe by the devil, but what I read was a very intelligent paper on economics. Correct or incorrect, it was very thought provoking. Marsha 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
