> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2005/04/26 Tue PM 01:13:20 GMT > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: OT: Take a course in philosophy, will ya. > > Quoting Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > Quoting Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > American Marxist phobia is actually more a thing of the fifties and > > > sixties. It's really quite dead. However, there are little pockets of > > > folks with rather extreme views who keep it alive in bits and pieces, > > > here and there. That's probably true of any system of beliefs anywhere > > > in the world. > > > > Sadly, yes. I'd even opt for leaving out the "probably". :-( > > > > What puzzles me in this particular case is just the anachronistic nature of > > the > > phobia... :-) > > > Quite a few Americans still seem to take the U.S. Civil War personally. > > (That was in the 1860s. Governments claiming to be Marxist have existed > rather more recently than that.)
I was going to say "Don't mention the war" but I didn't mean that one 8-) ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
