In a message dated 02/02/2006 1:01:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, dragaera-request at dragaera.info writes: Message: 5 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:55:31 -0700 From: "Jeff G." <Log0n5150 at hotmail.com> Subject: Re: What's a Duhring? To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Message-ID: <BAY103-DAV23FB992C074E982F9432DF40B0 at phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net> Cc: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:43 AM Subject: Re: What's a Duhring? > > > > >Jeff > >-Has given up on most political theories, instead subscribes to the "just > >leave me alone" style of self government. > > > > > > It's nice to read Dumas to make my enjoyment of on-topic books more > complete. And while I expect this won't be as applicable as _/*History > of the Russian Revolution*/_, I expect there might be some relationship. > > The trick to enjoying politics is to control how personal it gets. The > more of an intellectual pastime it is, the easier this is. > ____ > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0873488296/ref=nosim/strangehorizons > > >I think I have that one as well. My poli sci teacher was a refugee from >Russia. You are correct about the "trick" of politics, but like religion >most take it very personally even if they have no understanding of it's >fundamentals. I just find politics to depressing, the failure of ideals when >applied in real life does that to me. >Jeff >-Has found a copy of Anti Durhing on the web, and is reading it as well. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ It may also be worth it to read Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' to get a feel for what Marx is writing against. Or even better yet 'New Ideas From Dead Economists' by Feldstein and Buchholz. It is a primer to economic theory and is written in plain english. An enjoyable read and you may learn something too. John D. Barbato, OD