[Marxism] Yankees

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel Koechlin
Americans like to think in terms of first causes. This is due to their historical grounding in the bible (the word of God). Once they have established a principle, they like to follow it to its ultimate conclusion, however grotesque the results. That's why they have guns (because of the right

Re: [Marxism] Yankees

2009-09-30 Thread David Picón Álvarez
From: Daniel Koechlin d.koech...@wanadoo.fr The Americans are decidedly anti-dialectic. And that statement isn't? A European here, and I'm not convinced the distinction is quite as you put it. Though maybe a useful way to think about it is the distinction between procedural and distributive

Re: [Marxism] Yankees

2009-09-30 Thread Greg McDonald
Daniel K. wrote: Americans like to think in terms of first causes. This is due to their historical grounding in the bible (the word of God). Once they have established a principle, they like to follow it to its ultimate conclusion, however grotesque the results. That's why they have guns