tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post5288686509335373817..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Full MarxNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-4303267553156811742018-05-10T20:27:31.071+01:002018-05-10T20:27:31.071+01:00Revolution needs an ideology to hang its murderous...Revolution needs an ideology to hang its murderous impulses on. Marx gave them the script as iconic as Che's face.Bill Peschelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257587479467531187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-31939765572116230112018-05-08T18:54:13.940+01:002018-05-08T18:54:13.940+01:00Thanks Craig – I'm sure you're right that ...Thanks Craig – I'm sure you're right that it all goes back to the Greeks (as most things do). Maybe it all got out of hand with the growth of empires and nation states bringing the means and opportunity for wholesale idealistic slaughter. A sorry story...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-9409632794591431062018-05-08T01:09:46.375+01:002018-05-08T01:09:46.375+01:00I've just finished Bertrand Russell's &quo...I've just finished Bertrand Russell's "The History Of Western Philosophy", and it seems to me the idea of remaking the world into an ideal probably goes back to the Greek admiration for Sparta, bits of these philosophies pass into Christianity and beyond. So it certainly exists as an impulse going back into antiquity. Though certainly one gets the idea the 'social' aspect of it is steadily gaining hold though the middle ages (Hobbes 'Leviathan' for example).<br /><br />In all of the examples of revolution given, the philosophies espoused have only really served as window dressing for power grabs which had been made possible by external events. So in my somewhat limited opinion, history would have taken much the same course. It's not Marx so much as Lenin who is important to the course of history, the man of action.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15129572128024274391noreply@blogger.com