Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:57:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: 'hidden essence' (was Essentialism, Morality & Communism)


On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Carrol Cox wrote:

> I have written a long post on m-i on the history of desertions from the
> working class (or attacks on it) as stemming from an empiricist inability
> to grasp continuity in change, and I won't repeat it here, but this
> message is just another system of that intellectual and political
> influenza.
> 

Now, wait just a second. There is no evidence that Jesus Zarathustra was
ever a Marxist. From everything I have ever read, he seems to be some sort
of combination of libertarian and syndicalist. The only interesting
question is why he feels compelled to invoke the good name of Marx, since
clearly he has read very little of Marx, and understood even less. I
suppose that the only explanation is what the New Yorker article of a
couple of months ago pointed out, Marxism still has a certain cachet.

Louis Proyect



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