[Marxism] interesting but long article on R. D. Laing

[Ambrose Andrews]

2009/4/17 Gary MacLennan <gary.maclennan1 at gmail.com>:

> I have found over the years that it is pointless and near fatal to broach
> the question of sanity, madness, medication etc on the Internet.  The truth
> is that libertarians and Nietzscheans are everywhere even on a Marxism
> list.
>

True enough for practical purposes, but I'd make a distinction between
Laing and Szasz.
The former at least has some relative redeeming features within the
context of being largely useless.

  -AA.


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