Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 13:33:12 +0100
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (hariette spierings)
Subject: Re: analogy



>Also, Marxists have taken an easy route, imo. You must understand what you
>claim to reject. Intellectual laziness and easy dismissals do not serve the
>truth too well either. I do know all great thinkers of any stature have read
>the works of their opponents down to the last footnote- so what they put
>forth was strong stuff. Hence, it had practical consequences for the fight.
>
>Zeynep
>


That too, Zeynep, was valid in former times.  When the "opponents" of
Marxism had something to say!  Today, the bourgeoisie does nothing but
regurgitate the most reactionary and obscurantist ideas in their attempts to
pull rabbits out of their quacks hats and pull the wool over people's eyes!.  

Therefore, Marxists do not consider valid any longer to go into the details
of these "15 minute" theories and fancies, nor do they have to waste any
time on such "lucubrations" of the diseased mind of the imperialist
bourgeoisie which has now entered into a simple process of "denial"
indicative of its final agony. 
Moreover, to subscribe to the view that today one must "pay attention" to
bourgeois twaddle, is not, in my opinion, useful for revolutionaries and
only plays into the hands of dissemblers.

For Marxists, there is TODAY absolutely no time to waste with a bourgeois
intellectual mileu that has LONG AGO ceased to produce anything of value.
Moreover, were you to read "down to the footnotes" everything these worthies
WORD PROCESS these days, you would do nothing else in your life and still be
unable to get even 1% of that useless twaddle on board and ready for the
garbage can!.

There is no need to "understand" Fukuyama's "end of history", for example.
Or the twaddle of those who see "polemical tautologies" in the basic tenets
of Marxism.  First, because reality (history in development) soon dissolves
these theories like "the smoke of a cheap cigar" and sinks these without
trace in a very short time.  Fancy writing a serious Marxist analysis of
Fukuyama, for example!

There is only one way to deal with the pedantic pretensions of the
bourgeoisie these days:  Laugh at them and poke holes in their absurdities!
Do not waste time taking them seriously, because they are not, nor can they
be at all in this period of history!  Bourgeois intellectual life is finished!


Adolfo



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