On Friday, January 8, 2010 at 07:20:26 (-0500) Bill O'Connor writes: >Bill Lear <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 21:04:15 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes: >>> >>>On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Jim Devine wrote: >>> >>>"It is far too easy to be 'liberal' at the expense of the Middle >>>Ages." - Marx >> >> I hate to be a twit, but what did Marx mean by this, exactly? I'm >> especially curious to know how he was using the term "liberal". > >Revisionist history driven by bourgeois prejudices.
Ok, I got that from reading the sentence in Marx's footnotes about Japan's feudal society. But did he mean that the Middle Ages were a better time than that depicted in 'liberal' history? I do like his use of the work on page 564: "that Parliament should forbid children of 13 years of age to be exhausted by working 12 hours a day reminds his liberal soul of the darkest days of the Middle Ages". Here, "liberal" to me sounds like today's (American) "conservative": i.e., fake conservatives who want to use the state to further enrich the wealthy (which phrase, aside from "fake conservatives", really applies to today's liberals, at least those represented by Obama). Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
