Odiseizam wrote:
we can argue that marxian diabolic mood was just trendy ghotic vibe that was noir reflex from the enlightened era and the neopagan rush against Christianity, and for sure in his youth he was more prone to "cosmogonical epistemology" [1] so there is big chance that he was more or less diabolical in the begging, and after he just easily built upon that basis own interpretation of path to superhumanity i.e. the utopian enlightenment ideal derived by the baconian "new atlantis" that actually consumed whole european humanist realm!?
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far from superstition but PaulK looks like Anthony Fauci, ideal association for atheistic-commie vaccination, indeed if his analogy is true then the roots of modern atheistic communism are deepen in nihilism at best!
Use gothic instead of ghotic. Ghotic is just too obscure, while everyone has at least a vague idea of what gothic is.
You said it came out of the Enlightenment. It's part of the Romantic movement, which is actually a reaction against the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment is all about reason, the early Romantics were all about passion. A British wag once said of Shelly that he "was mad, bad and dangerous to know." Not exactly the dispassionate theoretician...
Cosmogonical is part of astronomy, you're using it wrong.
Marx was one of a number of economists of that era. He's not noir or Enlightenment or neopagan. He's also not as far from Adam Smith as most think. You could say his thinking grew out of Enlightenment principles, but it diverged from them considerably. You could also say he had one foot in the era of the Enlightenment, and one foot in the era that preceded the Modern era.
About the book that motivated your thread. The conservative National Review said about it: "The great virtue of the book is the attempt it makes to correct those who would “separate Marx the man from the evils ushered in by Marxism.” Which is roughly the opposite of what you seem to be saying.
You know just enough to get nearly everything wrong.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/ ... y/#slide-1