[lbo-talk] Anselm Jappe

Michael J. Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sun Sep 17 20:43:39 PDT 2006


On Sunday 17 September 2006 21:36, Angelus Novus wrote:


> He discerns two tendencies in Marx. One is a so-called
> exoteric Marx, whom he sees as a theoretician of
> modernization, a dissident of political liberalism and
> a protagonist of the Enlightenment who wanted to
> perfect industrial labor society under the guidance of
> the proletariat. The other is a so-called esoteric
> Marx, who in his difficult-to-understand criticism of
> value production went beyond capitalist civilization.
> According to Jappe, only this second side of Marx can
> provide a fundamental comprehension of present-day
> reality and enable us to trace out its most remote
> roots.

Somehow, I imagine Dr Marx reading these words and laughing so hard he forgets his boils for a happy minute or two. "Who do you zink I am," he gasps, as soon as he catches his breath, "Leo fucking Strauss?"

-- --Michael J. Smith --mjs at smithbowen.net

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