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To: aquila48
Kipling was critizing the gods of the market place - the faddish gods, the gods of the tastes of the moment.

Perhaps.

But gods of the Marxist place fit better.

Hard to see the gods of the fashionable "promising perpetual peace". Marxists do exactly that.

Hard to see gods of the fashionable promising to rob Peter to pay for collectivist Paul. Exactly what Socialist/Marxists do.

Both fit to some extant, promising that two and two do not make four. In 1919, the Marxists were a bit more hard-headed than are the cultural Marxists today, which promise and preach that reality is optional.

11 posted on 03/24/2020 7:48:28 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

“But gods of the Marxist place fit better.”

No not really. His gods of the market place are more encompassing than just Marxism.

He would consider Marxism one of the gods of the “market place” in the sense that it was another new shiny thing that promised all sort of wonderful things while the gods of the copybook headings were...

“... lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.”


12 posted on 03/24/2020 8:55:52 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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