[lbo-talk] Universal Asceticism and Social Levelling

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Sun Jul 15 07:44:22 PDT 2007


andie nachgeborenen

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!

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CB: I always read this as , not an "attack", but a statement of a sort of objective stage that will be gone through, like the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat, or "to each according to work" not yet to each according to need. Not pretty ,but unavoidable. Marx doesn't see the revolutionary process, especially the first phases of socialism, as all sweetness and light.



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