Not Really RE: I-P: Capitalism vrs. commies

[S. Morgan Friedman]

Failing not to be unsuccessful in not being unclear, Kelley wrote:
>At 06:49 PM 3/8/02 -0800, John Hall wrote:
>
>>Not really.  Thomas Sowell was a confirmed Marxist when he received his
>>first economics degree from Harvard, and he has written academically on
>>Marxism longer than I've been alive.  As I recall, this thesis was on Marx
>>and he stunned his advisor by declaring he would read the original and make
>>up his own mind.
>>
>>True, he isn't a Marxist any longer.  But he does an admirable job
>>throughout the book in separating explanation and interpretation from
>>analysis and critique.  Even then, he never gets around to a full
>>indictment.
>
>
>Ok, so it's more like asking an ex-smoker about smoking.
>
>Kelley

         LOL -- good analogy! however, i would say that it
         isn't quite true: an ex-smoker who is both smart
         and honest can write a penetrating and insightful
         book about smoking. in fact, this has already
         happened: richard klein's *cigarettes are sublime*.

         (on a side note, i would strongly recommend this
         book to smokers and non-smokers alike. very subtle
         and well-done. klein, a prof. [i think of french
         lit. but i'm not sure] at cornell, if i remember
         correctly, wrote this book to try to understand
         smoking, while he was in the process of quitting
         smoking.)

         (on a second side note, i've been on FORK for
         about a month or two now, but this is my first
         post. i feel like a member of this community,
         despite the fact that you all are only now
         learning of my existence:-)

         -morgan


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