Re: 7 years old Iranian genius (fwd) y.edu>

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no doubt the iranian gov. is doing its propaganda  ( as is the west against  iran) but just think about  this kid intellectual capabilities.




At 04:11 PM 5/1/1999 -0400, you wrote:

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>>What would karl marx say about this, i wonder?

>

>good question. you can read 'on the jewish question' as a starting point

>if you have not read it previously. marx would not see religion as a

>private affair left to the choice of individuals, parents or what not. in

>my reading of his writings, the public private split of capitalism, which

>is enforced by the modern bourgeois state to a stronger degree than it was

>under feudalism, privatizes religion, transforming the relations of

>domination into half-secular social beings as we are. the strength

>of marx's thesis is that the emancipation of state from religion

>(political emancipation) is not an emancipation from religion at all. we

>need human emancipation--overthrow of capitalism-- to end religious

>oppression in its private form. the rise of the christian right is a good

>example of how capitalism helps disseminate religous beliefs through the

>vulgar media in the name of free choice and expression(see christian rock

>and well-dressed women and men singing songs in the christian channel).

>the media does the same with pornography, as we deeply discussed before.

>commercial advertisements are also other sorts of manevouring techniques

>to maintain religion.

>

>

>Xxxx Xxxxxx

>SUNY/Albany

>New York.

>

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<bold><italic>The foucaldien ethos  has already reached  his/her  eternal
 utopia in the "present".  No need for further move!

</italic></bold>