tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280379846265476813.post6045742674608398123..comments2023-11-05T01:07:34.712-08:00Comments on Rise Up Hip Hop Nation: The Financialization of Society and the Fiscal Cliff "Crisis" Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11218094852008924290noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280379846265476813.post-50256826680666508542013-03-16T08:03:07.221-07:002013-03-16T08:03:07.221-07:00Jonathan - I appreciate you taking the time to po...Jonathan - I appreciate you taking the time to post a comment. I would have to say that I see the most spiritual base to material determinism - humanism. And in humanism unlike man created doctrine (religion, culture etc), we see the thread that ties all creation together - universal (natural) law. We are all (from the smallest plant to human beings) bound by the laws of nature..and when properly understood and not conflated with political constructions, Marxism promotes this basic understanding.Tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218094852008924290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280379846265476813.post-61439787257604187702013-03-16T07:57:42.540-07:002013-03-16T07:57:42.540-07:00Solzhenitsyn - I appreciate you taking the time to...Solzhenitsyn - I appreciate you taking the time to post a comment. I could make a strong argument that "The result is always the same: poverty, murder, tyranny." has little to do with the economic philosophy of cooperative economics and much more to do with political power dynamics ...i see that same result manifest in many a so called democratic, capitalist systems. It seems to just prove the point that there is a great historical misunderstanding of Marxist ECONOMIC philosophy and it has been convoluted with communist political empires. On the other hand, while many find it easy to see the "poverty, murder, tyranny" in other systems, I see little reflection on how globalization (global capitalism) offers different results for 95% of the world population.Tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218094852008924290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280379846265476813.post-21131329907374563322013-03-03T14:04:44.988-08:002013-03-03T14:04:44.988-08:00The distinction that is given to banality in all s...The distinction that is given to banality in all socialist discourse, its fascination with failure—true failure, not a grandiloquent attempt at success that has failed . . . , but a worship of inadequacy in and of itself . . . was the extent to which Marxism, without realising it, was the triumph of empty materialism over spiritual pretensions. Even though it took on the spirit of a warrior psychology in terms of class, it always remained debased. It was always shallow, manufactured, drossy—the doctrine of 'psychologised' matter, the materiality of the fart and belch, the self-satisfaction of the belly. In short, it was a blasphemy against God, against the prospect of deliverance—hence, its great hatred for all forms of religion—and its desire to reduce humanity, despite its mock-heroic demeanor, to a meaningless absurdity. Where man would reduce itself to a mere lumpen; an average or quotidian element, a Massenmensch—the mass man—huddled together, middling and stupid, without culture and bereft of dignity.Jonathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280379846265476813.post-90465571609869163392013-02-12T04:10:40.776-08:002013-02-12T04:10:40.776-08:00Believing in a Marxist utopia is a lot like believ...Believing in a Marxist utopia is a lot like believing in 'The Great Pumpkin.' If only you're sincere enough it will appear. <br /><br />Sorry, it's been tried again, and again, and again. The result is always the same: poverty, murder, tyranny. No thank you. <br /><br />You're welcome to start your Marxist experiment, of course. In fact if you do I hope it works. Just do it somewhere else, please. I don't want to be a part of it. Solzhenitsynhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communismnoreply@blogger.com