Re: [ox-en] Meaning of "prospecting asteroids"
- From: Russell McOrmond <russell flora.ottawa.on.ca>
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 22:33:08 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Stefan Merten wrote:
5 days ago graham wrote:
PS you do know that rms is quite consciously anti-marxist
Yeah. Unfortunately.
The US culture does have much to do with it - the average US Citizen
still thinks of 'Communism' and 'marxism' as being the enemy to everything
American. They bomb communist countries as a matter of no debate..
I'm in Canada so don't quite get as much of that. I do wonder, though,
whether what is talked about here is a bit more modern than marxism -
Sure, things have been re-interpreted to take industrial-era ideas and put
them into the beginnings of the information revolution, but is that really
fair to do? Given the pre-misconceptions so many people on the planet
have of what these things really are, is it not better to use new terms to
discuss these things?
Would be nice if we have a 'persons name' to attach an 'ism' to to allow
people to recognize we are really talking about something new.
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