>Bill Bartlett wrote:
> >
> > At 6:29 AM -0800 20/11/08, Chris Doss wrote:
> >
> > Certainly a lot
> > >of the ethical precepts in Marx (and Enlightenment figures in
> > >general) are ultimately of Christian derivation, and the eschatology
> > >has a lot of parallels with it.
>
>There may or may not be a parallel to be found between Marx & xtianity,
>but this is not one. In fact it is the sharpest contrast: there are no
>"thical precepts" in Marx. He doesn't even condemn capitalism morally:
>it is not evil, it's history. To be destroyed, yest, but keep the moral
>pomposity out of it.
>
>Carrol
Thanks. I was wracking my brain trying to think of very many "ethical precepts" in Marx's work, much less the possibility that one could find "a lot".
shag
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