Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 15:25:15 -0500 (EST) From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-acnet.pratt.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: Juan's evasions and misrepresentations KHOO Khay Jin wrote: > What was it that Marx wrote about not starting from what > people might say about themselves.... You mean the line about judging a book by its cover? > Facts, conjoined in a particular way, conduce to a particular meaning. > Surely that is elementary and is the very stuff of propaganda. In an international forum, the particular meaning of expressions is often hard to determine and open to misinterpretations [that's one of the reasons some people feel that they have to telegraph their intentions with "smiley faces"]. Surely, that is elementary. I didn't realize that we were engaged in the "very stuff of propaganda." I thought we were communicating to each other on an Internet mailing list. Jerry --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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