[OT] Re: Python training time (was)
Alex Martelli
aleax at aleax.it
Mon Feb 24 09:30:26 EST 2003
Steve Holden wrote:
...
> I often wonder whether socialism might not have been more popular if it
> had been presented in less ponderous (not to say turgid) prose. I couldn't
> get more than a few chapters into "Capital". Was it any more approachable
> in the original German?
No (my German's pitiful, but that's what German-speaking friends
tell me). However, when Engels was writing (in English), his prose
was (to me, at least, but again I think it's a widespread opinion)
far more palatable. And if you consider other British variations
of socialism, and writers such as George Bernard Shaw, I don't think
you can claim socialism didn't get its fair share of good, engaging
writers, and then some.
Capitalism did survive despite the turgid prose of Von Mises, no?-)
Alex
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