Sabri Oncu wrote:
> You see, engineers such as myself do not understand [Marx's] language.
>
> Where are the equations?
>
> This Marx guy is a bad writer.
>
> Not only he is confused, but also he is confusing.
>
> By the way, Keynes is a very bad writer also.
>
> Why is it that these guys cannot speak in a language that we can understand?
>
> Some sickness of the western rationality, I guess.

the way engineers typically think is the what's associated with
"western" rationality (i.e., a kind of thinking emphasized by the
Western European "Enlightenment"). Marx usually thought
"holistically," in terms of the big picture, which is often associated
with "eastern" thought.

-- 
Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you
should at least know the nature of that evil.
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