NP: No gov't; best gov't..from John Lanchester LRoB

[Ian Livingston]

> And then there's Marx...
> who certainly didn't have all the answers, but who brought vigor and at least the notion of rigor to the Counterforce against the inherent vices of capitalism.

As re which: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14764357

But I never, in my reading of Marx, got the notion that he was calling
for revolution at once, as so many maligners have interpreted his
writings. It seemed to me he said that capitalism would bring about
its own collapse, at which time the proles would rise to replace the
failed economy with a better system. So, fellow proles, hone your
wits! Rather than hacking the dying beast, look for the ways to evade
its death-throes and train a more domestic pet.

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:55 PM,  <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> To whom to turn for tutelage in the dismal science?
>
> You could look various parables and scriptures and cautionary tales indicating how other pursuits are more important than that of wealth
>
> And then there's Marx...
> who certainly didn't have all the answers, but who brought vigor and at least the notion of rigor to the Counterforce against the inherent vices of capitalism.
>
> But Dickens is even better:  "Mankind should have been my business!"
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-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant