Re: Of Spirit and Fire

John O -- Harold Bloom probably wouldn't be that upset over the Harry
Potter book burnings, come to think of it :).

But I'm being facetious.

While Marx did borrow a great deal from Hegel, he "turned Hegel on his
head" to do so (or, as Marx would see it, turned him right side up),
divesting Hegel of all the hocus-pocus Absolute Spirit stuff and
appropriating his obseravations for a purely materialist framework.

Come on, you know all that :)

Jim

Omlor@aol.com wrote:

> Daniel,
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> When I described myself as "sans Spirit," I was not just speaking of
> those old Judeo-Christian god stories. I meant without any of it. Of
> any age. Without sweat-lodges or chakras or maharishis or covens and
> certainly without Hegelian /Geist. /Now, there is no other single
> philosopher in the history of Western thought more fully and
> thoroughly informed by Hegelian Spirit than Marx. And via his reading,
> Lenin and Trotsky are as well. So they have nothing to do with what I
> have been discussing. They are believers, all the way, with upper
> case values at all times. You are ill-informed.
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> Also, I wrote nothing at all about Rummy (aka Donald Rumsfeld). I
> wrote about John Ashcroft. Sometimes, I think you just scan rather
> than read.
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> And he's not just a Bible thumping hypocrite and zealot, he's a bigot
> as well, and is using "defense against terrorism" as a sleazy cover
> for his twisted evangelism. So now we have the true believers
> protecting us from other true believers. It's all really charming.
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> Though no more charming than that "standing Church" you mentioned
> providing cover to men who take sexual advantage of young boys and
> then offering hush money to the families of the victims -- at least
> until the publicity made it no longer possible for it to do so.
> Meanwhile, it sends out a letter threatening any member of its
> community if they vote or come out in favor of two people who love
> each other getting married if they happen to be of the same gender.
> It's appalling, actually. There's room for everyone, huh?
>
> Finally, a question: what do Butler, PA and Almagorda, NM have in common?
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> All the best,
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> --John
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> PS: Answer -- they both have Christian churches that organized
> bonfires to burn the new Harry Potter book. In each cases, the
> book-burnings were well-attended by local parishioners. There are a
> number of other American cities on the list as well.
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