[lbo-talk] Marx and Religion

BklynMagus magcomm at ix.netcom.com
Tue Feb 27 16:43:34 PST 2007



> Anyway, Brian, understood in context, Marx's own
comments about religion are not even about the Abrahamic tradition but about mid 19th century Prussian Christianity, maybe be extension European Christianity.

Thanks Andie. I often think that when people talk about religion or sex, they are usually talking about what they have experienced up close which they then extrapolate to "religion" or "sex." Some anti-religious folk remind me of anti-porn crusaders with their zeal.


> I am not competent to evaluate these comments,
knowing little as I do about these traditions myself -- as often insightful but loaded with conscious and unconscious Orientalism and European chauvinism and even racism

When you read Hegel on Africans you realize just how much he didn't know.

Brian



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