On 6/7/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Incidentally, Marx did not plagiarize Dilkey. He wrote it anonymously. I'm not sure that anyone knew who the author was prior to the book I just mentioned. I suspect that the book was not particularly widely read. Nor was there that much interest in conventional circles about Dilkey's piece.
I don't think KM was a plagiarist (I was being a bit flippant). He knew he was standing on the shoulders of previous authors and trying to synthesize them. For example, he at one point said that he had only three main big ideas. I've forgotten what they are, but (for example), the "labor theory of value" wasn't one of them. -- Jim Devine / "The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career." -- Albert Einstein.
