Childish 19th century babble. Completely irrelevant today - much like Deniro's lame "Amsterdam" trying to explain the non-left as would be tyrants. Completely boorish.
In the essay “The Dullest Book of The Month: Dr. Thorstein Veblen Gets the Crown of Deadly Nightshade” (1919), after addressing the content of The Theory of the Leisure Class, the book reviewer Robert Benchley addressed the subject of who are readers to whom Veblen speaks, that:
“the Doctor has made one big mistake, however. He has presupposed, in writing this book, the existence of a [social] class with much more leisure than any class in the world ever possessed — for, has he not counted on a certain number of readers?”
or:
In the essay “Prof. Veblen” (1919) the intellectual H. L. Mencken addressed the matters of Americans' social psychology reported in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), by asking:
Do I enjoy a decent bath because I know that John Smith cannot afford one — or because I delight in being clean? Do I admire Beethoven's Fifth Symphony because it is incomprehensible to Congressmen and Methodists — or because I genuinely love music? Do I prefer terrapin à la Maryland to fried liver, because plowhands must put up with the liver — or because the terrapin is intrinsically a more charming dose?
LOL. You do not have any real evidence of a successful communist regime and only offer the sophmoric 19th century babblings of a self-loathing person who felt isolated from society...this seems to be the typical M.O. of the socialist/communist lefty academics. "Some historians have also speculated that this failure to obtain employment was partially due to prejudice against Norwegians (he is Norwegian)."
To want a utopia where everyone works to a common end is a nice fantasy, but one that is only realized through horrific costs to individuals. Some think that mean justifies the ends, others are not sociopaths.
Yes, plenty of his contemporaries wrote criticisms of Veblen. It wasn't his iconoclastic economics, however, that upset those Victorian and Edwardian professors, it was his private life. Women threw themselves at him and he wasn't the man to resist. He had several affairs and marriages. Oh the shame!
Childish 19th century babble. Completely irrelevant today - much like Deniro's lame "Amsterdam" trying to explain the non-left as would be tyrants. Completely boorish.
In the essay “The Dullest Book of The Month: Dr. Thorstein Veblen Gets the Crown of Deadly Nightshade” (1919), after addressing the content of The Theory of the Leisure Class, the book reviewer Robert Benchley addressed the subject of who are readers to whom Veblen speaks, that:
“the Doctor has made one big mistake, however. He has presupposed, in writing this book, the existence of a [social] class with much more leisure than any class in the world ever possessed — for, has he not counted on a certain number of readers?”
or:
In the essay “Prof. Veblen” (1919) the intellectual H. L. Mencken addressed the matters of Americans' social psychology reported in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), by asking:
Do I enjoy a decent bath because I know that John Smith cannot afford one — or because I delight in being clean? Do I admire Beethoven's Fifth Symphony because it is incomprehensible to Congressmen and Methodists — or because I genuinely love music? Do I prefer terrapin à la Maryland to fried liver, because plowhands must put up with the liver — or because the terrapin is intrinsically a more charming dose?
LOL. You do not have any real evidence of a successful communist regime and only offer the sophmoric 19th century babblings of a self-loathing person who felt isolated from society...this seems to be the typical M.O. of the socialist/communist lefty academics. "Some historians have also speculated that this failure to obtain employment was partially due to prejudice against Norwegians (he is Norwegian)."
To want a utopia where everyone works to a common end is a nice fantasy, but one that is only realized through horrific costs to individuals. Some think that mean justifies the ends, others are not sociopaths.
Yes, plenty of his contemporaries wrote criticisms of Veblen. It wasn't his iconoclastic economics, however, that upset those Victorian and Edwardian professors, it was his private life. Women threw themselves at him and he wasn't the man to resist. He had several affairs and marriages. Oh the shame!