[lbo-talk] Handwriting on the wall ( Re: Max Horkheimer on Theismand Atheism)

[Carl Remick]

>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>... I've heard people argue
>that the prophetic impulse was important for Chuck;
>his family was rabbinal and his mother never really
>converted, so he woulda probably got the whole
>megilla. He knew his Old Testament too and there is a
>sort of prophetic feel to his writings.

I think the most indefensible thing ever said about KM is that he was not a 
moralist.  His thought -- whatever you term it (knowing his rejection of the 
term Marxism) -- is the morality that dare not speak its name.  KM's entire 
persona and rhetorical style are 100% consistent with the prophetic model 
that abounds in the Old Testament -- ripe with denunciations of corruption 
and oppression, thunderous in asserting stern retribution is nigh.  The 
notion that KM's work bears any serious relationship to science is a joke.  
It's moralism pure and simple; the patina of "science" was sprayed on simply 
to give Victorian bourgeoisie the willies and induce them not to dismiss KM 
as a common scold.

Carl

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