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Re: Hmmm

posted by [identity profile] caramida.livejournal.com at 10:49pm on 11/10/2006
Marx never tried anything. He was just a scholar. Lenin was the disaster. Affirmative action is just that a rebalancing of the tables.
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Re: Hmmm

posted by [identity profile] cinchntouch.livejournal.com at 11:05pm on 11/10/2006
Marx was a philosopher without whom there never would have been a Lenin/Castro/Mao. Granted, his role in the political arena was limited, but I think the Manifesto constitutes a definite political agenda that was implemented. To go with the conservative chestnut, ideas have consequences, Marx's ideas certainly did.

I never thought of Affirmative Action as rebalancing. I have have always thought of it as promoting opportunity to succeed. Rather than claiming the universities "for the people" it allowed different types of people into the universities, what they did after that was up to them.
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Re: Hmmm

posted by [identity profile] caramida.livejournal.com at 11:12pm on 11/10/2006
Well, my idea of balance does not include anything like Marx's hairbrained schemes. I mean a little tipping, like offering advantages to people who have been purposefully dis-advantaged.

I always wonder what Marx would have done if a committee had taken away his favorite pen, intending to give it to someone who was a better writer (to each according to his needs).
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