From: UticaRose-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: M-TH: PANIC LEFT-7


In a message dated 97-04-11 07:05:56 EDT, mclemee-AT-igc.apc.org (Scott McLemee)
writes:

 
 
<< Hegel says, in the PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY I think, that "theory paints 
 gray on gray, but life is green."
 

UR: thank you. not having read Hegel other than through Marx and Lenin, i
must be remembering Lenin quoting this passage. i still think the color scale
is correct.

<< Our strenuously hyperventillating Buffalo crowd suupose that, by writing
as 
 they do, they demonstrate that their "thought" is vewy vewy "difficult."  
 Those of us accustomed to spending a good deal of time reading genuinely 
 difficult material may be permitted a snicker.  As another German said of 
 certain mediocre academics of his own day:  "They muddy the water, to 
 make it seem deep."   
  >>

UR: again, thank you. now for a good quote. perhaps you are correct about
Buffalo. i have had a hard time getting past the first two sentences of most
of their posts and i have also been irritated by the approach of just
insulting them. if they are posting junk and there is a need to respond, it
would be more helpful to criticize the way done above. 


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