Re: Being out there was Re: BHA: anybody out there?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gary Maclennan wrote:

>  *if* one takes the notion of the reincarnation of souls
> seriously

The point where the aristocratic reaction of Plato intersects the core
of modern bourgeois thought is in the Myth of Er, where each soul,
detached from the world, makes an abstract and free-floating (a-social)
choice of 'his' life. Nothing could be more utterly removed from and
repugnant to the very heart of historical materialism -- that wherever
and whenever humans find themselves, they are always already caught up
in, implicated in, a complex or ensemble of social relations -- than the
doctrine of reincarnation. I for one, to the extent that I find Marx
other than a crank, cannot for an instant take the doctrine of
reincarnation seriously.

Carrol




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