Re: Re: Re: J.S. Mill on Communism

2000-08-31 Thread Louis Proyect
At 03:21 PM 8/31/00 EDT, you wrote: >OK, so Mill had some reprehensible ideas. He also worshipped "genius," despised the common herd (but thought it susceptible of improvement), thought the educated should get more votes, and so forth. And so? --jks Communism is about democracy, political as well

Re: Re: J.S. Mill on Communism

2000-08-31 Thread JKSCHW
OK, so Mill had some reprehensible ideas. He also worshipped "genius," despised the common herd (but thought it susceptible of improvement), thought the educated should get more votes, and so forth. And so? --jks In a message dated Thu, 31 Aug 2000 2:36:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Louis Proye

Re: Re: J.S. Mill on Communism

2000-08-31 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: >"In proportion as success in life is seen or believed to be the fruit of >fatality or accident, and not of exertion, in that same ratio does envy >develop itself as a point of national character. The most envious of all >mankind are the Orientals. In Oriental moralists, in O

Re: J.S. Mill on Communism

2000-08-31 Thread Louis Proyect
"In proportion as success in life is seen or believed to be the fruit of fatality or accident, and not of exertion, in that same ratio does envy develop itself as a point of national character. The most envious of all mankind are the Orientals. In Oriental moralists, in Oriental tales, the envious