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 > > -- > Mervyn Hartwig > 13 Spenser Road > Herne Hill > London SE24 ONS > United Kingdom > Tel: 020 7 737 2892 > Email: mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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