Marx has an attack on "crude communism in the Paris Manuscripts, "the consummation of this envy [shades of Nietzsche] and of this leveling down proceeding from the preconceived minimum." EPR, ME Reader at 83 (Tucker, 2d ed.). This leads to the Cultural Revolution and at its worse to the Khmer Rouge. Surely you don't advocate this!
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 14, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi
> wrote:
>
> > Where is practical opposition to the multinational
> empire? Only
> > Islamists, whose revolutionary doctrine and
> practice, like "[t]he
> > revolutionary literature that accompanied . . .
> first movements of the
> > proletariat," have "necessarily a reactionary
> character" and often
> > inculcate "universal asceticism and social
> levelling in its crudest
> > form"
>
(<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-
>
> > manifesto/ch03.htm#c>)
> > .
> >
> > Social liberals cannot tolerate such leveling and
> asceticism.
>
> Every time you put it that way, you make the
> multinational empire
> sound more appealing.
>
> I don't really get your point - are you endorsing
> Marx's critique of
> the crude reaction of your Islamists, or are you
> embracing the crude
> reaction because it's the only opposition around, or
> are you
> embracing crude reaction itself? It's not like these
> guys don't have
> a multinational empire of their own in mind, either.
>
> Doug
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