[Benrand]

I know a very professional, ivory tower intellectual, who is at Princeton now after turning down Harvard, who started his journey by reading Rand.

If I asked a serious philosopher about Marx and he DIDN'T laugh, I'd be a bit taken aback. But that's not the way it is. Marx is taken quite seriously by many different areas of scholarship.

[dubyagee]

Somehow that doesn't surprise me...

[Xenalyte]

Marx is taken quite seriously by many different areas of scholarship.

Full disclosure: I was VERY leftist in college. (Further disclosure: I attended Houston Baptist University, and majored in poli sci and English.) My journey toward the right began when one poli-sci prof had us read The Communist Manifesto, and after I read it, I spent almost an hour in said prof's office ranting about what a bozo Marx was, and it was no wonder his wife starved to death, and how the hell could anyone with an IQ above room temperature think this was a blueprint for ANYthing, because it was confused and idealistic to the point of unreality, and the "transformation of human nature" would never take place because blah blah blah . . .

When I ran out of breath, my prof smiled and said, "I always knew you had the heart of a liberal. Would you like a jar to keep it in?"