Chris Hedges: Karl Marx Was Right - Chris Hedges - Truthdig

[Ian Livingston]

Yes, Keith, this is a very welcome read. It seems like so many of the
Marxist commentaries I read are from people who read a sampling of Marx,
like the Marx - Engels Reader or some such, and go on to expound as
authorities. This is pretty well-grounded interpretation applied to
contemporary market symptoms. The beast is ailing and flailing.

Is there anything like a social / cultural identity to lose? Is the
delusion of unlimited capitalism a central monadic ego moderating the
pinioned nations in their struggle to survive the conflict between guilt
and pleasure? Is there a nondual embrace of the possible awaiting some
worldwide enlightenment? A few decades back, I recall, some Christian
outliers proclaimed that Christ had already taken a new corporeal form and
would soon be ascending to lead the righteous to Heaven in the great Divine
Rapture, a rumor regularly passed around since Medieval times. Nowadays,
outlier Buddhist groups are claiming that the Maitreya Buddha has already
been born and will soon lead the broken world out of its darkness, as if
human society had ever been whole and unbroken and had somehow dashed
itself against a rock on the way to the River. Why not a wistful prayer for
salvation from capitalism, which is clearly the greatest evil to be foisted
upon dim world by the Secret Lords since Catholicism? Who knows? Maybe
someday we will discover that the answer was given us long ago by a
drug-adled prophet? Tune in, turn on, and drop out! Maybe the non-dual will
prove itself to be some form of unity, but a radical pluralistim seems
evidently more likely.... I'm more inclined to look for Jesus Arrabal than
the Divine Cyprian of the Transcendent Sex.

The question is what comes after, and who among will claim responsibility
for our own actions within the society we cohabit and the environment we
inhabit?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found this is a Google search for late capitalism and Marx.
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> https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0791419533
> Michael Washburn - 1994 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
> Late dualism involves a decline of the mental ego leading to the
> possibility of transcendence rather like, for Marx, late capitalism
> involves a decline in the rate of profit leading to the possibility of
> a collapse of the capitalist system. Late dualism ...
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> "late dualism"--in Transpersonal Psychology?-- might be akin to
> Cyprian's loss of self and resultant "transcendence? in Against the
> Day, maybe?, so interestingly.
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> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Interesting article.
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> > http://m.truthdig.com/report/page2/karl_marx_was_right_20150531
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