From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Thu Oct 30 2003 - 12:48:19 EST
> > >DS: How about John Stuart Mill? > >KM He was a well-meaning plagiarist and somewhat touching in his >exertion to reconcile the irreconcilable, and he is still read by >second-rate minds at Oxford or Yale; but has anyone heard of him in >Peoria, Illinois, not to speak of Pyongyang? > >DS Are there no great bourgeois thinkers? > >KM Of course there are. And I punctiliously paid my respects to them. >But today few of my enemies bother reading Adam Smith or David >Ricardo. And great scholars like Tschernyschewsky are now forgotten. Has anyone read Tschernyschewsky's critique of John Stuart Mill? Yours, Rakesh
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