Talk:A. James Gregor

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: Subheadings Eixo 16:31, 17 August 2006 (UTC) (edit)

"Gregor's marriage to University of Nevada Professor Maria Hsia Chang, however, should disprove many myths about his alleged "racist" views that have been leveled upon him by his critics, namely the embittered faculty and staff of the the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley. A number of leftist intellectuals in Berkeley harbor great distaste for Gregor's views. Most likely, these academics are very unhappy with the validity of Gregor's attacks on their beliefs. More specifically, Gregor predicted that the Marxism that many leftists espoused during the 1960's lack any validity whatsoever in the modern world of political and economic development." -> This entire paragraph needs to be removed. Wikipedia brands itself as an Encyclopedia where one can find out factual information, not opinion and bias, about subjects. The fact that the author of this paragraph says that Gregor's marriage deflates him from charges of racism is ludicrous. Also, why are you attacking the "Ethnic Studies Department" at Berkeley? That's a reflection of YOUR views, not NECESSARILY Gregor's. Even if they are Gregor's, they don't belong here. Write an op-ed piece.

"The book argues that fascism was actually a left wing philosophy." - is this really in the book (I don't have my copy on me, I'll follow up if still unanswered)? He lectures thoroughly on how little (if any) information is imparted by the left/right distinction. This statement has to be a mischaracterization: Gregor would argue that given the typology, it easily can be shown that attributes associated with Facism (purportedly right wing), can easily be applied to revolutionary regiemes of the left (Russia, China, Cuba, etc). His point is "left-wing" and "right-wing" are meaningless distinctions, at least in the case of Facism vs. "Revolutionary Marxism" (quotes, due to his emphasis on the lack of any meaningful relationship, beyond rhetoric, between Marxist theory and these revolutionary movements) and rather share many fundamental characteristicss. This page needs A LOT added to it, he produeced many other interesting thoughts in the last 40 years that this page does not due justice to!

"[...] offensive comments Gregor has made concerning women and minorities [...]" My God.... it's an obsession! This is simply FALSE! Henry Cassini 11:19, 24 October 2007 (UTC)