01.30.10
Great Lenin’s ghost
Alfred Wallace, the true source of Darwism, and its first great repentant critic, considered the ghost question crucial to understanding evolution and humand psychology. It would seem that Marxism’s encounter with scientism was the first stage in its undoing.
The Posthistoricity of Orthodox Marxism
http://clarkmax.blogspot.com/2010/01/posthistoricity-of-orthodox-marxism.html
1. The orthodox Marxist ends the history of thought with Marx. All
truth that remains to come is to be a methodical reiteration of his
thusly eternalized word. All that is not a reiteration is rendered
false. This tendency runs riot in the unconscious behavior of all
orthodox Marxism, the provisos of dialectics notwithstanding, and is
near incurable as such.2. If idealism, as Marx writes in his German Ideology, is essentially
a belief in ghosts, the ontotheological “spectre of communism” surely
betrays the main contours of Marx’s faith.
http://www.marxmail.org/msg72360.html
Jim Buck said,
January 31, 2010 at 5:53 am
No, it illustrates Marx’s easy use of literary tropes i.e. the spectre at the feast
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=363103
nemo said,
January 31, 2010 at 8:24 am
I merely meant that the joke is on the historical materialists: the ghost of Lenin is out there, stalking the astral plane of politiics
Jim Buck said,
January 31, 2010 at 10:11 am
Lenin may yet urn out to be the once-and-future king.
nemo said,
January 31, 2010 at 12:57 pm
You can check out my post just today on Zinn’s book.
We are leftists here: Ultra Far Left, left of Marx and Engels, and therefore quite different as critics of the left from the usual rightwing crap dissed the left.
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January 31, 2010 at 1:14 pm
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