I swear, if another . . . well-meaning person sends me another . . . well-meaning email with a link to the . . . well-meaning speech by David Simon about his . . . well-meaning comments on Marx, I will beat my head against the wall.
It’s good that Simon is reading Marx. Reading is always better than not reading. I’m just wondering if he has had the time to get to Marx’s writings about Jews and what he has to say about them. I’m thinking specifically of:
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is the worldly god? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist.
I would be really interested in what David Simon and his father, the same father who spent his life working for B’nai B’rith, would have to say in defense of their worship of huckstering and deification of money.
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I have written an Essay in Russian on that Marx’s article. If someone here reads in Russian, I would be happy to E-mail my essay to them.
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Interesting. I found Michael Mack’s investigation of Freud versus Kant to be quite interesting in this regard, as It makes the Kantian Christians (as Nietzsche would view them) to be very stiff and stuck at the level of their rigidity in terms of what Freud calls the Oedipus complex. The categorical imperative IS this state of being. Why do you need stiff laws to follow, imposed from the outside, so that you can be arbitrarily obedient?
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http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3115175?uid=3737536&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103102840857
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