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Re: Response: Psychoanalysis Re: "happiness is a transitory state"



In a message dated 2/9/04 2:57:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx writes:

It has been
observed time and again how those recruited young and innocent to radical
groups have defected once they felt the force of tradition.


I know and quote this passage routinely, Doug  (hey, out there, looking for a great birthday present for someone?? give 'em Minima Moralia- Adorno at his most accessible and brilliant) and the above line is so very true. . .I was part of 2 sets of Marxists in my youth. . .the SWP-in the street kind and the upper-middle class preening academic anthro grad student variety. . .always trying to one-up you with their french structuralist mode of production theory. . .well guess which ones have endured, and which ones have sold out?

Brian


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