[lbo-talk] On the Threat from Religion

[wrobert at uci.edu]

I don't find this very convincing, however I think that you can point to
the fact that Marxism as a methodology rather than a political movement
has been taken up by individuals with radically different goals in a
productive manner (I am thinking of the French Hegelian Kojeve and I
believe the department that trained many of the cadre for Japanese capital
were trained by Marxists) shows that the methodology doesn't have an
inherent goal even if the movement has always had goals (although not the
same ones) robert wood


> I'm not very interested in debating Marxology, except where I think
> other marxists are going astray in concrete practice in ways grounded in
> a misconstrual of Marx. Otherwise, let the antiquarians of the future
> worry about it. And I won't debate the following: Marx had no interest
> in universal equality as a 'value," and in fact did not thnk equality
> would characterize even a realized communist society. (To each acoording
> to her needs is an anti-egalitarian slogab -- and even if interpreted
> that way is STILL not an ethical principle but a practice dictated by
> the development of a communist society, a social not an ethical
> principle, and actually a practice rather than a principle.
>
> Those interested might read Chapter 4 of Ollman's _Alienation_.
>
> Universal principle forsooth.
>
> Carrol
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