Comments on: Nationalization - Wall Street learns to sing “The Internationale” http://www.wemagazine.org/nationalization-wall-street-learns-to-sing-%e2%80%9cthe-internationale%e2%80%9d/ Progressive Voices for Progressive Times Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:08:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Robert A. Letcher http://www.wemagazine.org/nationalization-wall-street-learns-to-sing-%e2%80%9cthe-internationale%e2%80%9d/#comment-30 Robert A. Letcher Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:57:36 +0000 http://www.wemagazine.org/?p=244#comment-30 Zepp-- for the most part, I agree with you. I am writing, however, to offer some friendly criticism of what you wrote. Your article makes several references to how Jefferson thought, and I imagine that he might've thought that way. But I don't know because I wasn't there and you don't know because you weren't there either. One particular comment of yours struck me -- your assertion that Jefferson was no Marxist. Of course he was not! Jefferson died in 1826 according to Wikipedia, when Marx was only eight years old, having been born in 1818, again according to Wikipedia (and my copy of Marx-Engels "Selected Works")--and it took him a while to think his way past Hegel to think up historical materialism. I'm not arguing for serious scholarship here. Mainly I'm interested in not weakening our arguments against the right wing's neo-know nothing approach to political discourse. Please keep writing... Bob Zepp–

for the most part, I agree with you. I am writing, however, to offer some friendly criticism of what you wrote. Your article makes several references to how Jefferson thought, and I imagine that he might’ve thought that way. But I don’t know because I wasn’t there and you don’t know because you weren’t there either.

One particular comment of yours struck me — your assertion that Jefferson was no Marxist. Of course he was not! Jefferson died in 1826 according to Wikipedia, when Marx was only eight years old, having been born in 1818, again according to Wikipedia (and my copy of Marx-Engels “Selected Works”)–and it took him a while to think his way past Hegel to think up historical materialism.

I’m not arguing for serious scholarship here. Mainly I’m interested in not weakening our arguments against the right wing’s neo-know nothing approach to political discourse.

Please keep writing…

Bob

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