... This is recent event - and a commendable one, but I haven't spoken to any Iranians about it, so I don't know what their post-emigration political...
I read an interesting "Letter from Europe" (a staple of the NY Times at least once a week)about the labor of Germans. This was after I happened to catch a...
... - Was this attributed to the massive urban renewal that's been going on there, or more to day-to-day expenses? I think Boston is in a similar situation...
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality." "Capital is money, capital...
No, actually almost all of the Big Dig is funded by the Feds. I actually watched a fascinating special on the creation of the Big Dig. The story (being on...
Actually I find it difficult to see how Nietzsche's abhorrence of socialism would make him take issue with any of those statements. If you read "Schopenhauer...
... I agree, at least re: the early Nietzsche, e.g. as evinced in your cite. You can find similar sentiments galore in Human-All-Too-Human and even gay...
... - Thats a pretty vague and romanticised statement. You could replace the word capital with "ideas that have value" and then it becomes so general that it...
The problem is that distilling the genius of Marx into a few choice quotes doesn't really show what he was aiming at in toto. As to Nietzsche's abhorrence of...
... If by 'bourgeois society' is meant some ideal model, maybe he could make this hold. Otherwise it is unture or a wild exaggeration. ... This presumbaly...
... than ... The thought experiments were quite sufficient for him to draw sound conclusions. 100 years ago socialism in Britain and elsewhere often went along...
-> (though very unfair, she was ... It is a very feminine masterpiece. The central ethical dilemma is very much a woman's thing and it is confusing to make it...
No schadenfreude here. In fact I love Germany. I'm just saying that there is no sustainability of the current regime. The same is true of France. The only...
God that was hilarious man. Of course Miller has become some sort of right wing nut now, always complaining about the government. It's good to see his old...
Really? I didn't think that novels had "feminine" or "masculine" traits. Does that mean that Mann's "The Magic Mountain" is solely masculine because Hans...
... Women and men have very differnt mentalities. Don't you believe there is a sex war. Would you agree with this? "Equality between man and woman is...
... You are saying that if they are to survive they are going to have to adopt something like the disgusting American work culture of only 2 weeks holiday a...
No I'm not advocating that at all. If they don't figure something out they are going to have to go to an American model. I would recommend that they...
I would agree with that in principle, if only because I believe that people in general are at war with each other, only ceasing when it is to their advantage...
... Have I put forward such a theory? This is what I wrote:- "It is a very feminine masterpiece. The central ethical dilemma is very much a woman's thing and...
I apologize if I overstated your case about Eliot, but I question whether acknowledging her as the greatest English novelist actually pulls us into giving her...
... Is it? I don't recall. ... Sometimes Dickens is greater (Great Expectations). Richardson is deeper (Clarissa). Even for the feminine I'd rate Jane Austen...
Dostoyevsky's anti-semitism is in plain sight when you read the journal that he wrote at the end of his life. God, I can't remember the name of it though....
... I remember when I read his 'Diary of a Writer', originally published as a periodical, being repelled by much of his reactionary punditry which somehow...
... <no_reply@y...> ... published ... Post-'War and Peace', post-renouncement, etc., Tolstoy is generally accepted as thenceforth preaching a queer kind of...
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Juan Carlos Cruz Guzman
juancarloscruz@...
Jul 4, 2003 12:09 am
HELLO ALL: I quit politics, I quit political-philosophy, it didn't get me any where, I am not socialist anymore. I am Nietzschean from now on, i guess i wasn't...
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Juan Carlos Cruz Guzman
juancarloscruz@...
Jul 4, 2003 12:09 am
HELLO ALL: I quit politics, I quit political-philosophy, it didn't get me any where, I am not socialist anymore. I am Nietzschean from now on, i guess i wasn't...
... Really? Think about the England of his day, to which he primarily alludes, and recollate your impressions. I don't think it's ncessary to take him so...
