On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/25/14 8:27 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> In any case, I'm still waiting for someone to explain why u.s. leftists need >> to have any opinion on internal conflicts over which they can not possibly >> have any material impact. > > For the same reason Marx wrote about India, Russia, the American Civil > War and France.
The difference being that Marx had something original to say on these subjects. We American Lefties mostly content ourselves with quoting the Master, appositely or not, and filling up the interstices bewteen quotations with a tenuous mortar of moralistic platitude. The resulting fabric is both charmless and unsound. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
