From: Everdell-AT-aol.com Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:24:28 EDT Subject: Re: Nazi Modernism and Yeats In a message dated 6/7/00 7:33:05 AM, tmorpheme-AT-hotmail.com writes: <<My explanation for the continuing power of all of these ideologies (anarchism, marxism, social democracy, liberalism, conservatism and fascism) is ultimately a functional one: they express the interests of major social groups, classes and class fractions in contemporary society. In this sense, I would argue that at the most general level the major classes of the early nineteenth century are not very different from those of the early twenty-first century.>> I like that approach very much. The ideologies, I would add, get thought out long before the average person in any major class can see their application to his or her own life and interests. They "hang over" when a social group takes them up, which is often a pity; but it's almost more of a pity to see century-old ideas taken seriously as philosophy so long after good thinking has superceded them. -Bill Everdell, Brooklyn
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