An Interview with Terry Eagleton - my 2 bits

[Matthew Cissell]

As a friend of mine once said: "Marx was genius, marxism isn't"

I'm waiting to see if Kai will weigh in on this.


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 From: Tom Beshear <tbeshear at att.net>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: An Interview with Terry Eagleton
 

 
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 
>To: Madeleine Maudlin 
>Cc: Michael F ; pynchon -l 
>Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:40  PM
>Subject: Re: An Interview with Terry  Eagleton
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>Even Marx can be 'right'  with certain small-t truths. And he was. 
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>Like anyone or stopped  clocks too.
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>From: Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
>To: Michael Fonash <mff8785 at gmail.com> 
>Cc: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>;  alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>;  pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
>Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 12:20  PM
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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. 
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>"Well look mate, that's Hegel."
>"Yes but now it's right."
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>Is Nietzsche right wing?  He's anti-nationalist.   Anti-democracy.  Neither of those two things place a person on the  right.
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>On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Michael  Fonash <mff8785 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>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.
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>>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
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    <alicewellintown at gmail.com>  wrote:
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    http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/an-interview-with-terry-eagleton/
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    http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300169430
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