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. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
