Re: History of French

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:55:52 GMT

Herman Rubin wrote:
>
> In article <414A4430.1E62@worldnet.att.net>,
> Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >Herman Rubin wrote:
>
> >> In article <p5ugk0ho4ifmbk65kks8cdpmmid3bsn7m7@4ax.com>,
> >> Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >Ruud Harmsen writes:
>
> >> >> I never noticed anything PC (poltically correct, that's what you mean,
> >> >> not Personal Computer?) in what I read about linguistics.
>
> >> >Every academic domain is rife with PC, unfortunately.
>
> >> The worst is history; it no longer starts with the
> >> evolution of ideas, and the military and economic
> >> events which led to the development, but instead
> >> the changes are attributed to the lives of peasants
> >> in the societies. Individuals do not matter.
>
> >Looks like you've studied as much historiography as linguistics.
>
> The "individuals do not matter" is not my position; it
> is that of the totalitarian Marxists.

We're not talking about Stalin and Mao and Kim Il Sung. We're talking
about Marxist historians.

> >> There are more intellectual Marxists on the social
> >> science faculties in American universities than in
> >> the former Soviet Union.
>
> >Is that a Bad Thing?
>
> Yes. They believe that the person does not count, that
> the discoveries or advances are entirely due to the
> social milieu. They believe that this should apply to
> education as well, that all should be taught the same;
> it is this perversion of education which started about
> 70 years ago which needs to be completely reversed.

Like I said, you haven't investigated much historiography. Or read
history by Marxist historians. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net