[lbo-talk] Progress and Cariucature (Was Re: Catholicism. . . )

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 06:59:12 PST 2008


Carrol Cox wrote:


> We've been over this before. Here is my post of Fri, 21 Nov 2008, under
> the Subject line, "On the Threat from Religion."
>
>
...
> "Marx is the poet of that Faustian demonism: only capitalism reveals the
> social, and the ?nal unmasking; the ?nal apocalypse, the ?nal revelation
> can be reached by wading through the murk of estrangement which, seen
> historically, is unique in its energy, in its diabolical force. Marx
> does not 'oppose' capitalism ideologically; but Rousseau does. For Marx,
> it is history; for Rousseau, it is evil."
>

Um, what does this mean? Sorry to be dense - the prose is a little ?nal.

SA



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