INTELLECTUALS & THE DIVISION OF LABOR--SARTRE ET AL

[Doug Henwood]

Ralph Dumain wrote:

>I was there, and I walked out on that pretentious gasbag after a short
>while.  He's just another elitist French intellectual shit at home with his
>own kind.  Hence your quote does not impress me.  I may well have read your
>review.  Feel free to take up Derrida's texts yourself and teach us
>something; I have other things to do.

Ralph, you can deem Derrida the rankest bourgeois apologist if you like,
but didn't Marx devote a lot of time to understanding and refuting thinkers
he didn't agree with, profound (Ricardo, Hegel) or foolish (MacCullough,
Say, Burke)?


Doug

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