I just read the Condition of the Working Class by Engles a couple of months ago, along with some other stuff of his. I thought it was pretty cool, and I'm just a simple capitalist pig. ;) He gave the situation as unbiasedly as one can expect, and then separately gave his opinons. Plus, you've got to respect someone who spends their 70th birthday party getting really drunk, eating oysters and trying (apparently with success) to pick up women. It's been at least 4 years since I picked up Trotsky and Marx, so my recollection of those two is a bit fuzzier. I seem to remember that I did not like them much, as I found them to be slightly dry and cumbersome. But as I said, it's been a few years and many books since them. Alex Nixon ----Original Message Follows---- From: Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> At 02:59 AM 6/17/2002 -0300, Alex Nixon wrote: >I've always been partial to Engles. He's probably the Marxist/Communist >that I can appreciate the most- intelligent, funny, and posessing the best >(in my opinon) and most straight-forward writing style of all the >Marxist/Communist/Trotsky Sympathisizers I agree on all counts, except that I think Trotsky was even a better writer than Engles. What, me worry? I'm a Yankees fan! All Yankee fans would go to heaven... ...but we're already there! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com