Since Carrol doesn't believe in the progress of history, it's hard to see how appealing to Marx's belief in the progress of history is going to help anything.
--- On Mon, 12/15/08, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: SA <s11131978 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Progress and Cariucature (Was Re: Catholicism. . . )
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 9:59 AM
> 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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