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 --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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