An Interview with Terry Eagleton - my 2 bits

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Homer Simpson?

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:
> As a friend of mine once said: "Marx was genius, marxism isn't"
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> 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
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> As one of my professors put it, Marx was excellent at describing, but not so
> good at prescribing.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
> Subject: Re: An Interview with Terry Eagleton
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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
>> <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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