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Saturday, March 6. 2010

An appreciation of The Communist Manifesto

From Walter Mead at one of our favorite new web sites.
Posted by Bird Dog at 17:57 | Comments (2) | Trackback (1)

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From a commenter on our Communist Manifesto post: Quite a few years ago I was at a company management training class at which we had a Marxist professor as an invited speaker. He explained to us that our political views were determined merely by our ec
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Interesting article. I can't, however, get that song out of my head!
#1 dr on 2010-03-07 07:45 (Reply)
Interesting article by Mead.

Quite a few years ago I was at a company management training class at which we had a Marxist professor as an invited speaker. He explained to us that our political views were determined merely by our economic self-interest.

I raised my hand and suggested to him that maybe the political views of the academic class are partly determined by their economic and status self-interest.

He had clearly never thought of such a thing, and was a little upset. Some of the other attendees thought I had been rude to a guest by raising the question...
#2 david foster (Link) on 2010-03-07 10:32 (Reply)

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