> CB: Amen ! Spoken like a True Believer in Atheism and Critical
> Thinking and Political, Ethical, Aesthetic Value ( though with some
> sympathy with unease)
>
> Imagine if I had mentioned that somewhere in _Capital_ Marx uses sold
> copies of the _Bible_ as an example of a commodity. Or Commodity
> Fetishism ! Holy Jesus ! Verily you would have declared my
> insensitivity to context futile, feudal and dogmatic , if not stuck in
> a Soviet time warp and much dummer (misspelled) than you.
Totally not getting the reaction on this. I was surprised by the post I first replied to precisely because I think of you as pretty smart - so I figured you could take being called out on citing the opening of Capital out of context like it provides some kind of defense of relativism. I think it was a legit crit on an important point; I gather from the reactions it was taken as pedantic, grandstanding, whatever. In any case the thread feels pretty stale at this point.