File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/97-04-04.105, message 23


Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:32:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Marx's monkey writer


What I find most interesting and odd was that someone thought (or wanted)
Marx to be the author of the Huxley quote.

Scott McLemee wrote:

> As I recall, Th.
> Huxley indicated that they would also type out the Bible and the Magna Carta
> in the process.

Not only is this idiotic at face value, but there is a certain
anti-intellectual insinuation, i.e. anyone, including monkeys, can perform
intellectual (or religious or political) work.

Jerry



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