Howard Pilott
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June 12, 2015 at 11:42 am
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ALB
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Howard Pilott wrote:
Additionally unless there is a reference to Marx and preferably Engels too, somehow there’s a lack of credibility. Just ask yourself for a moment, why do references to some long dead German have such a status in our communications? To me it is almost as if we doubt our own integrity unless there is a link to our apostle and his holy scripts. My view is that most people could not give a monkey’s about what he said and in fact are turned off by the references; many of which quotations are turgidly expressed in the written voice of a bygone era.
Howard's summary of the view of "some members" thoughts here is a bit unfair as it is based on listening to speakers at one meeting, at which the chair quoted Engels and the speaker Marx. Actually, whether or not it is a good or a bad thing, this is not done at all our meetings. Far from it. And it varies from speaker to speaker. It is certainly not compulsory.