Re: Universal Asceticism and Social Levelling
On Jul 14, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Where is practical opposition to the multinational empire? Only Islamists, whose revolutionary doctrine and practice, like “[t]he revolutionary literature that accompanied . . . first movements of the proletariat,” have “necessarily a reactionary character” and often inculcate “universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form” (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist- manifesto/ch03.htm#c>) .
Social liberals cannot tolerate such leveling and asceticism.
Every time you put it that way, you make the multinational empire
sound more appealing.
I don’t really get your point - are you endorsing Marx’s critique of
the crude reaction of your Islamists, or are you embracing the crude
reaction because it’s the only opposition around, or are you
embracing crude reaction itself? It’s not like these guys don’t have
a multinational empire of their own in mind, either.
Doug