With no intention of offending any of my Marxist colleagues by the question, I ask if it is possible that David Brett is a rather too-literal-minded Marxist flexing his bureaucratic muscle?
   
  In my first teaching job, the office next door was that of a Marxian colleague in the Government Department.  One afternoon I was returning to my office from class and paused briefly to say "Hello" as I passed Bill's door.  He said that he had been looking over the next semester's course offerings and noticed that I was to be teaching one course titled "Economic History" and another titled "History of Economic Thought."
   
  "Why, yes I am," I replied.
   
  "I don't understand this," Bill said.  "Aren't they both the same thing?"
   
  This led to a good laugh for the two of us, in contrast to what seems to be happening Down Under.
   
  Sam Bostaph