{"id":5953,"date":"2016-12-15T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/15\/mike-valle-at-big-sticks\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T17:35:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:35:02","slug":"mike-valle-at-big-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/15\/mike-valle-at-big-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Valle at Big Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Mike Valle and I got together the other day at the premier cigar lounge in the East Valley, <a href=\"https:\/\/bigsticksfinecigars.com\/\">Big Sticks<\/a>, to discuss <strong>Grundlagen des Marxismus-Leninismus<\/strong>, chapter 1, <em>Der Philosophische Materialismus<\/em>. &#0160;Mike has read the entire stomping 800+ page tome. &#0160;It is an outstanding manual of Soviet scholasticism. &#0160; Originally written in Russian and published in 1960, near the height of the Cold War, it appeared in German in the same year in Dietz Verlag, Berlin. &#0160;Mike acquired two copies and kindly gave me one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">I had him pose with the cigar store Indian for the following shot. &#0160;No day without political incorrectness, as I always say. &#0160;And that reminds me of the &#0160;<em>Seinfeld<\/em> &quot;Cigar Store Indian&quot; episode. 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