Still searching for Marx in Faces of Courage ?
Are Zams still searching for any ideational traces of Marxism in Faces of Courage? Stop wasting time and public resources as there is none. I have read the book from cover to cover and line by line twice within two weeks last June. To access to the ideas of the millienium's greatest thinker, there are other less expensive and cumbersome gateways in the 21st century, like Marxists Internet Archive and Situs Kaum Marxist Indonesia, or official websites of the Communist Party of Australia, Communist Party of Britain, Communist Party of Canada, Communist Party of India (M) or Communist Party of USA.
Simon says UM needs critical thinking
The Brits did not divide and rule Malaya: Don
Khoo Khay Kim’s comments highly impressionistic
Simon says UM needs critical thinking
The Brits did not divide and rule Malaya: Don
Khoo Khay Kim’s comments highly impressionistic
posted by James Wong Wing-On at 4:34 PM
3 Comments:
Hi James,
I’m very much a bookworm, and I’m a great believer in exposing the young to a wide variety of competing ideas. Reading a book or article containing ideas you may disagree with is necessary training for critical thinking, as well as learning how to rebut ideas that you don’t think are right. Students won’t learn that skill from reading bland, sanitized material or just reading one side of the story.
I’ve noticed that many books which used to be easily available in KL bookshops 10 years ago (some I have on my bookshelf) have now disappeared. They haven’t been officially banned, but book importers simply cannot get them through JB Customs.
Most of these are mainstream books, available in any good bookshop or library around the world, but you can’t buy it in Malaysia.
So I’m not surprised the local university standards are dropping, the current generation of UM graduates can’t write proper presentations, don’t know how to rationally critique an idea, and so on.
This probably isn’t related to Zam, this is KDN (AAB) territory.
"ZAMS", as a sociological type, refers to what Jose Ortega y Gassett typifies as the MASS MAN in his masterpiece The Rise of the Masses.
Dear rhan,
Why do you open a blog since July 2005 without entering any of your thoughts and opinions? Just as curious. Cheers.
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