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...and intellectuals were always considered carefully because they had an annoying capacity of playing with sophisms, deconstructing ideology, using logic when doctrine would have sufficed, finding ways to pass subversive messages, writing books with multiple meanings. It wasn't but sheer savagery. Intellectuals were actually quite dangerous.

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 01:53:27 PM EST
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Quite obviously this wasn't what Marx, a classic example of an intellectual, and he had been the victim of repression, was advocating for a communist society. He was trying to put an end to such societies - and you claim to be familiar with Marx's work !

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 at 03:04:52 PM EST
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