Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 15:32:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: analogy



>
>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!
>
Actually Aldolfo appears to be correct for a change. Actually a lot of this 
stuff is petty bougeois intellectual masturbation. Now if we just can get 
rid of the reformists, centrists, and revisionists of Lenin and Trotsky!

malecki




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