Hegel/Marx

[Aarnoud Rommens]

nothing wrong with farce, bien au contraire cher ami, farce is good and wholesome - tis what ties the turkey together so nicely - in french at least. the young marx. oh, yes, wait, that humanist do-gooder! ack!


On 2010-06-07, at 3:13 PM, Richard Fiero wrote:

> Aarnoud Rommens wrote:
>> So marx is hegel's farce. So?
> . . .
> Not quite. The young Marx is worth reading in depth.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hegelians
> Another Young Hegelian, Karl Marx, was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to undermine the Prussian establishment, but later formed divergent ideas and broke with the Young Hegelians, attacking their views in works such as The German Ideology. Marx concluded that religion is not the basis of the establishment's power, but rather ownership of capital — processes that employ technologies, land, money and especially human labor-power to create surplus-value [5]  — lie at the heart of the establishment's power. Marx (and Engels) considered religion as a component of the ideological superstructure of societies, and a pre-rational mode of thought, which nonetheless was wielded by ruling elites to obscure social relationships including the true basis of political power. In this latter sense, he described religion as "the opium of the people."