Marxism is a subject that it's okay to write about without knowing
anything, even among academics and scientists. For example, in Marc
Hauser's MORAL MINDS, which is generally a good book, he writes:
"Oddly, this move [in John Rawls' theory of justice] has an eerily
familiar resemblance to Marxist politics, in which individual
significance dissolves into group significance, regardless of effort
or talent." [there is no footnote.]
--
Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not
stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
Wait till I get around to writing a review of Gabriel Kolko's "After
Socialism", an astonishingly uninformed book that mixes together
hatred for Marxism (and social democracy) with the people who teach
it. I wonder what it was like to be at York University with him if
you were Leo Panitch. Kolko seems so filled with anger toward Marxist
professors that I can easily imagine him throwing a punch. And he
doesn't even have the excuse of being me.
