Hi all,
As the participants in right-wing talk-radio say "first time caller, long
time listener"--last eight or so months, anyhow. I just want to say I
have found this list an invaluable tool in assessing NATO's ongoing
bloodletting and the Asian Financial Crisis (remember that?!) , and have
enjoyed listening to the talk on all the other incidental topics that
have come up. Being too young to have witnessed, let alone participate in
any of the sectarian battles of the left, which seem to me to be
responsible, if only in part, for our collective incapability of seizing
the momen or the popular imagination, I've been able to glean a little
history from the list as well.
As for myself, I'm an undergraduate in both Speech-Communication and
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (sounds like 4 majors, but
its only two) when I have the dough...
I'm also a great fan of the Eighteenth Brumaire, and since my copy was
handy...
Quoting from footnote 13 of the New World Paperbacks edition by
International Publishers (I have to see if my copy has that touchy
mistranslation of petit/petty):
Crapulinski--the hero of Heine's poem, _Zwei Ritter_(Two Knights)_, a
spendthrift Polish nobleman; the name Crapulinski comes from the French
word _crapule_--intemperence, gluttony, drunkenness, and also--loafer,
scoundrel.
Here Marx refers to Louis Bonaparte--26
Rg (Randy)
Religion: the world's oldest comedy.
