> So, how about it: _Spectres of > Marx_ in thirty seconds? Or fifteen or ninety if you like. > Tavis If you think I'm going to summarize Derrida or _Capital_ in 15, 30, or 90 seconds, you've got another thing coming. My point is that one can *not* legitimately summarize a complex body of ideas into a short soundbite. It is the attempt at simplification that, in part, separated Ricardo from the "vulgar economists" and Marx from the "vulgar Marxists." If one wants short fairy-tale like answers to complex theoretical and political questions, then perhaps one should revert to reading "Quotations from Chairman Mao" and, thereby, substitute vacuous slogans and prose for analysis. Jerry
