Re: [Marxism] Engels as angel

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Midhurst14@xxxxxxx (Midhurst14@xxxxxxx) wrote on 2009-08-17 at 11:58:03 
in  about Re: [Marxism] Engels as angel:
> 
> 
> For it is an accepted truth that Karl Marx, not John Maynard Keynes  or 
> Milton Friedman, has the answer to the dilemmas daily confronting the 
> central banks of the developed countries. 

   Well, actually, I think that those Central Banks don't find the answers to 
their dilemmas in Marx' writings, but those writings are indispensable 
_understand_ at all what has happened and is still happening. The idiots 
posing as "economic scientists" are completely in the dark concerning the 
factors in the current economic crisis. 


> Also the modern day feminist need go no further for an explanation of  
> their present and past exploitation, than to read Engelss, Origin of the 
> Family. Where once male possession of property became dominant, 
> the  pre-eminence of the mother figure was over, and exploitation 
> of women in its  every form continues to the present day. 

   Well, Engel's book is a good starter, but one should not be content with 
that. The factual knowledge of our ancestors has progressed over the last 
120 years, although, that is clear, the effort to see the original humans, just 
separating us from animals, as practicing capitalism and a patriarchal family, 
is still hampering the science. I recommend "Womens evolution" by Evelyn 
Reed and the collection of her essays under the title "Sexism and Science". 
Both published by Pathfinder Press. <http://www.pathfinderpress.com>.


cheers, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in 
German

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