An Interview with Terry Eagleton

[Tom Beshear]

As one of my professors put it, Marx was excellent at describing, but not so good at prescribing.
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  From: Mark Kohut 
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  Even Marx can be 'right' with certain small-t truths. And he was. 

  Like anyone or stopped clocks too.


  From: Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
  To: Michael Fonash <mff8785 at gmail.com> 
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  Marx even called himself a left Hegelian.  He wasn't even shy about the wholesale theft.  I've always wondered about how you could take somebody else's idea apply it elsewhere, turn it on its head whatever, and possibly expect it to be true, or to suggest it might be true. 


  "Well look mate, that's Hegel."
  "Yes but now it's right."


  Is Nietzsche right wing?  He's anti-nationalist.  Anti-democracy.  Neither of those two things place a person on the right.



  On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Michael Fonash <mff8785 at gmail.com> wrote:

    I am still dumbfounded as to how the many vociferous, outspoken
    Profs/Phd's(certainly not all) can not see how Marx is a radical
    left-wing theorist as Nietzsche is a radical right-wing theorist:
    neither being anywhere near "truth" or an effective, sustainable
    theory of Modern gov't.  Accurately, they are brilliant re-writers of
    Hegel and not much else.  The title "Marx is Right" is just...
    foolish and silly.


    On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
    > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:06 PM, alice wellintown
    > <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >> http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/an-interview-with-terry-eagleton/
    >
    > http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300169430





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