Re: [Marxism] Theocracy

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

James Daly wrote:

<Contrary to John Stuart Mill, who said humanity would be brought  
about by the bourgeoisie giving
incentives to naturally selfish people to behave "socially", Marx  
said that
to bring about human behaviour the working-class must create a human
environment. (Towards the end of his life he was looking at the
potentialities of Russian and other agricultural communes).>

Part of the problem with this transference of theological eschatology  
to social being has to do with the fact, recounted multiple times in  
accurate ethnographies,  that the working class hardly ever seems up  
to the task of taking god's place. In fact, the working class more  
resembles the broken sinner than the shining saint, buffeted so  
thoroughly by the blows of capitalism that it has no real hope of  
collectively transcending  actually existing circumstances.

Greg McD.


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