From owner-marxism-international  Wed Apr 16 13:50:46 1997
Message-ID: <33550ED6.126A@mail.telepac.pt>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 18:39:35 +0100
From: Joćo Paulo Monteiro <jpmonteiro@mail.telepac.pt>
Subject: M-I: Stampeding buffalloes

They do have an awkward style, but I find myself interested in what they
say.
They don't debate well, by my standards, and they often shoot wide, way
out of target. But I've seen them hit a couple of times, where no-one
else had before.

They have the intellectual arrogance of extreme youth. Marx, when he was
about their age, was a bit like them. Except that Marx wrote better and,
occasionally, denounced absolute genius on a simple turn of phrase. But
he defenitely was an insufferable pedant. What's more, he did begin with
"abstract theory" and worked his way to the concrete. Not the other way
around. That's an empiricist illusion.

Keep on with it, Buffalo kids.



Jo=E3o Paulo Monteiro

P.S. It goes without saying that you're welcome to hit me too.
D=E9molissez moi.



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