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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 02:31:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ben B. Day" <bday-AT-cs.umb.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Marxist Propaganda


On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote:
> ... Because
> literature - and the novel in particular - do something Marxist governments
> cannot stand: they question. And Marxists cannot be questioned (I have
> tried, and they all turn militant and close-minded to anything outside their
> ideology, insisting, as all those who have no real arguments to back them
> up, that my inability to understand why they are right is because of my
> bourgeois thinking, or because of bourgeois society or some such garbage -
> never explaining how they were able to get past all that while I have
> not...).
> 
> Troy Camplin

Oh, come now. This is absolutely ridiculous. I'll stop before I begin
making equally specious generalizations about "literary theorists."

----Ben





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