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To: Dr. Sivana
You are the first person I have EVER heard suggest that Marxism had anything substantial to do with Old Europe except as a reaction to it.

That's not impossible, but it's impossible that nobody has ever tendered the same thought. Marx and all the other idealists and romantics hark back to Thomas More and his Utopia, do they not? Imagineering (to borrow a 20th-century word) a place of peace, harmony and justice -- and death to dissenters -- based on ..... what? Nothing?

No, on Aristotelian concepts of society retooled for a better model based on, inevitably, Socrates and Plato. That's all More had to work with, after all. And Marx pointed backward to More, and to the ideal of the Holy Roman Empire, a universal and holy suprastatal realm that aspired to dispense divine justice along with temporal policy.

Or have I missed something?

40 posted on 02/24/2014 3:36:51 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

bump


41 posted on 02/24/2014 3:38:55 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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