Submitted by Wayne Price (not verified) on Fri, 12/25/2020 - 14:59
"did you ... try desperately to refocus the conversation to your review?"
Guilty as charged. Since these are a string of comments following my review, I did indeed ask that the comments relate to the review. What a concept!
Reading these comments (most) one would think I wrote an attack on Stirner (not a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses, as I see them, of Blumenfeld's understanding of Stirner) and a paen of praise to Marx (not his strengths and weaknesses in relation to Stirner) and that I did not mention other anarchists such as Bakunin.
As to the charge about my "oversimplif[ing] the broad tradition of three recognized schools of zen into a single brutal system", I gotta say you are weirdly overstating things. A fine example of being " careless with the difficult facts of critical reading".
"did you ... try desperately to refocus the conversation to your review?"
Guilty as charged. Since these are a string of comments following my review, I did indeed ask that the comments relate to the review. What a concept!
Reading these comments (most) one would think I wrote an attack on Stirner (not a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses, as I see them, of Blumenfeld's understanding of Stirner) and a paen of praise to Marx (not his strengths and weaknesses in relation to Stirner) and that I did not mention other anarchists such as Bakunin.
As to the charge about my "oversimplif[ing] the broad tradition of three recognized schools of zen into a single brutal system", I gotta say you are weirdly overstating things. A fine example of being " careless with the difficult facts of critical reading".