Reply #6: Your points are well taken... [View All]

[arendt]

but my essays are already way too long and pedantic.

In fact, I considered making the subtle distinctions you suggest,
but they would have made the essay unreadable.

I'm doing my best to summarize and popularize history, while at
the same time avoiding being labelled a Marxist, a communist, whatever.
If I get into the kind of precise terminology you offer, I will
sound like a lecturer at an East German university and the message
will be devoured by the right-wing immune system.

So, I stand by my deliberate unclarity. The proles won't care, and
I have plausible deniability with the inquisitors.

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I'm sorry Dave, I can't open the pod bay doors.

arendt