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To: JohnM who wrote (47127)	5/26/2004 3:29:50 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793939

I really only see it as inadmissable McCarthyism........But the conservatives who use this strategy, such as Lind, are simply trying to use the age old political gambit of smear tactics. Your ability to compartmentalize is astounding, John.

To: JohnM who wrote (47127)	5/26/2004 5:05:24 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793939

The class inequality stuff was pretty hard headed. So, why call it "romantic"? This is a marker. I don't have time right now. Class inequality is there for all to see. But what was the social function of class when Marx was writing? I think he got this wrong or ignored it. But putting that aside. His final stage of history was the dictatorship of the proletariat. He got there through an extended analysis of Smith's capitalist world, and then predictive theoretical extension of that analysis. This latter part is not scientific writing, even by 19th century standards, but has the same characteristics as a novel like Werther, both the novel and opera. It is normative writing - I don't believe there is a term for forward-looking-nostalgia, but that's what its got. That's why I call it Romantic, because technically, that's what it is. Marx was a reformer and his narrative is impelled by that. He was an accute, although not always honest, social observer and there's lots in his writing that's interesting.