File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2001/bhaskar.0106, message 39


Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:28:47 -0500
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: BHA: Bhaskar, Marx and self-consciousness


I've just been catching up with Bhaskar posts and come upon the
following. Has anyone confirmed this? I looked up all the letters to
Ruge in the Collected Works (Vols. 1-4) and I found nothing remotely
like this rubbish. Could someone cite an actual source where Marx said
this?

Carrol

Mervyn Hartwig wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Somewhere Bhaskar approvingly cites Marx as follows (or part thereof -
> certainly the second sentence and I think also the last, although the
> citation of each might be in a different place):
> 
> 'Our programme must be: the reform of consciousness not through dogmas
> but by analysing mystical consciousness obscure to itself, whether it
> appear in religious or political form. It will then become plain that
> the world has long since dreamed of something of which it needs only to
> become conscious for it to possess in reality.... What is needed above
> all is a *confession*, and nothing more than that. To obtain forgiveness
> for its sins mankind needs only to declare them for what they are.'
> (Marx to Ruge 1843).
> 
> Can anyone tell me please where Bhaskar cites this?
> 
> I've been re-reading the early Marx, and it's striking that many of the
> themes of *From East to West* are already there...
> 
> Mervyn
> 
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