[lbo-talk] Reading Arendt in Caracas

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>On Aug 18, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Reuven Kaminer says that Arendt's worst writings -- about the
> > faulty concept of "totalitarianism" -- have been lauded while her best
> > ones -- skepticism about Zionism -- have been ignored:
> > <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/kaminer150807.html>.
>
>Congrats on the timely publication of that piece, which was really
>refreshing to read.

Particularly refreshing is the conclusion, viz.:  "Hannah Arendt argues that 
the content of the century is the assault launched by totalitarianism 
against freedom.  This overarching metaphysical description is 
characteristic of bourgeois ideology in that it completely ignores the 
central social and economic crisis of our time.  The crisis of modern 
society is the internal contradiction of capitalist society whose relations 
of productions are an objective obstacle to human progress.  The content of 
the century is not a parable of good and evil (which is, of course, a 
generalized form of Christian myth) but the long and tortuous efforts to 
overcome and overthrow capitalism-imperialism.  Humanity is still faced, to 
this very day, with the choice between socialism and barbarism."

Carl

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