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...Stones lyrics side by side with The Communist Manifesto and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte? Will future courses of Marxism ask students to explain the relevance of the line. "He can't be a man cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me," to Marx's Alienation and Social Classes? For extra credit, what's the difference between Marxism and quasi-Marxism? Or post-modernist Marxism as developed in the sexual-political imagery of "She's so cold...
...pursuit of political philosophy has led some men far afield it took Plato to Syracuse. Rousseau to Geneva, and Marx to London. For Michael J. Sandel, it has led from the halls of Oxford University to the Soldiers Field softball diamond...
...think I now can explain what, at the time, was a real mystery: why was Karl Marx not taught at Harvard? At the time I suspected that Capital contained a shameful truth, and that Harvard professors refused to teach it because they recognized that. How much, I now realize, I overrated them. Of course they had not read Capital either. The shameful truth was that they could not. And that is why Capital was not taught at Harvard...
...direct expression of our political beliefs. The passion for directness was a kind of style. We dressed in our politics, and we wanted all who met us to confront them. "Some people talk about the weather," my favorite poster at the time announced, and below silhouettes of Marx, Engels and Lenin, proudly proclaimed: "Not us." We therefore did little to create a convincing program, and we left to the liberal organizers of the mass demonstrations the tedious labor of welding alliances. We attended those demonstrations only under the condition that we could hitch on a Bobby Seale Brigade and spar...
...members of the Republican Club put down their Wall Street Journals for a moment and taken a hard look at reality, they would never have forwarded the claim that the Social Studies department is a Marxist citadel. Karl Marx is but one of eight theorists, for example, whom sophomores read in their tutorial. Concentrators also pore over the pages of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, pillars of the political and economic tradition to which the Republican Club is the delinquent heir. Why, each year department chairman David Landes gives a lecture in which he lambastes Marx as a historian...