VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[Dave Monroe]

Here's one ...

Zizek, Slavoj.  The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why
   the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For?
   London and New York: Verso, 2001.

"From now on, even though we once knew Christ from a
human point of view, we know him no longer in that
way; everything old has passed away; see, everything
has become new!"

Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians
asserts for the first time in human history the
revolutionary logic of a radical break with the
past--with it, the age of Cosmic Balance and similar
pagan babble is over. What does it mean to return to
this stance today?

One of the most deplorable aspects of our postmodern
era is the re-emergence of the "sacred" in all its
different guises, from New Age paganism to the
emerging religious sensitivity within
deconstructionism itself. How is a Marxist to counter
this massive onslaught of obscurantism? The wager of
Zizek's The Fragile Absolute is that Christianity and
Marxism should fight together against the onslaught of
new spiritualism. The subversive core of the Christian
legacy is much too precious to be left to the
fundamentalists. Here is a fitting contribution from a
Marxist to the 2000th anniversary of one who was well
aware that to practice love in our world is to bring
in the sword and fire.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/xyz-titles/zizek_fragile_absolute.shtml

http://www.semcoop.com/detail/1859843263

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> Christianity and Marxism can be compared in many
> ways.

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