The Marxist critique is Elitist

 

Just as capitalists or the Oligarchy and those in its pay-tow don't have an excuse for the economic insecurity of the masses, it doesn't automatically infer that Marx was right (as Eagleton puts it).  The fact is, Marxism is accepted and believed by people who cannot explain it or understand it*.
Whereas, the same is true, for example, of Catholicism but nobody is going to argue in dissertation after dissertation that it is a basis for an economy.  

Marxism is opposed to the very thing that it is aping (religion).It has the scintillating seduction of intellectual elitism all over it.  
Its discourse lies entirely in intellectual abstraction promulgating further intellectual abstraction (never simplifying, but always re-negotiating itself as more and more complex).  Grasping its thesis is an out-of-reach mystique.  Its an abomination of Calvinist theologising mixed with Rousseaun.
It is pervaded by an air of arch-scholasticism, generating for itself a qabbalah of impenetrability enabling it to perpetuate its discourse and the professorial-clerical class
with it.  No one really understands the intentional byzantinism of Das Kapital et al, so more professors and dissertations are needed.

Marx himself exudes the spirit of the degenerate bourgeoisie class (who he claimed to despise in favor of the proletariat).  Unless you take the reading that the dictatorship 
of the proles as the consequence of industrial capitalism and that, only post-prole, would 
the utopia of classlessness be achieved.  Then Marx would not be the degenerate 
bourgeoisie, but he would be anti-prole.  So it goes, back and forth in a circular argument.

If you take a solidly materialist view of humanity i.e. the Darwinian one, without the 
crutch-of-God view, of humans as mammals hence social creatures, then hierarchy 
is still the evident state of our our socialism, our being, societies, ordered or disordered.

 
*Their excuse being that "do not" is not the same as "cannot", i.e. they believe they will, one day.  Perhaps then utopia will be had.

tags: Ralph Milliband.

The whole economy is based on fraud and forgeries.
All work ultimately is commissioned by the wealthy
or those employed by the wealthy.  The real wealth is all
in debt-banking & crooked land development and based on loans which
is now linked to gov bailouts.

Yes, its too abstract.  This is how it was allowed to happened.  
No-one can be arsed to think about it.
Its emotionally unsatisfying, so no thought is allotted to it. 
This is what is taken advantage of by the degraded consciousness involved.

To continually argue about loans, overdrafts and where 'the cash' is allotted
is to avoid the root problem and get mired in the symptoms.  The root problem
being Usury.

As long as we think, in line with modern notions of democracy,
that education is the same for all - i.e. that everyone can have
the propensity of anyone else - thereby denying that some
individuals have certain, very particular, even peculiar inherited
qualities that aren't easily assimilated, then we have the
dream of Ochlocracy.

It hasn't fully won out, because the false can never actually win,
it could only do so if it were not false.  This is another reason
why good and evil are not equals.
Evil is a perverted facsimile of the Good.

This makes one think of the moon, but the moon is obviously reflecting
light, it doesn't pretend to be the thing it is reflecting from, it just receives and
gives a soft emanation of that light.

- "I was reading summat bout good & evil and it was saying that evil doesn't exist.
God created everything but not evil. Evil is the turning away from God.
The disconnection from Him. This is the great heresy".

-Yes.  Heresy, a Greek word, means Taking away from the Whole.
i.e. nothing new is actually Created, only something is removed thus altering the whole.
A denying of the whole, un-wholly, hence unholy.

The Vatican shouldn't be confused with Freemasonry.
The latter was created in opposition to the former.
Freemasonry could be seen as a Luceferic cult in the metaphor Milton's fallen angel in Paradise Lost.
He wants to outdo his master, he thinks he can find the keys.

Dorkins, this idiot thinking is so tiresome

By Gad !  This idea that all we need to do to live in harmony is to erase religion. 
Turn out the churches, mosques, citadels, synagogues, temples and convert them to
apartments, nightclubs, bars and market halls.  Or just demolish them all.

Is this really going ro end all wars and bring on Utopia ?

Lets take World War I as an example. Those teenage boys lined up to hack down and be hacked down.  Was it piety,  patriotism.. No, it was social stigma which drove them, like Neanderthals drove the hairy Mammoths off cliff edges to extinction.  World War II, which was even bigger and better than the first installment, wasn't exactly a religious war either.

But in the television series The Root of All Evil?, later retitled The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins claims that we're ignoring 'the elephant in the room' - the Religions, whose eradication will stop terrorism and war in a future where all bogeymen are dispelled.  Its rather shallow thinking.

It makes one wonder who the biggest idiot-thinker actually is - between the religious believer, or Dawkins.
Well, they're both in clover - that's all that passes muster these days  - 'paydirt'.
The only idiot is the one who doesn't turn a dime on gibberish talk.

Tobacco Mencken

The recent anti-smoking advertising by the NHS reveals an utterly depraved society because it appears that nobody can think beyond two options: either worthwhile because it works; or that it simply doesn't work to dispel the seduction of smoke.  But beyond this seemingly straightforward dualistic thoughtpost - What of the 3rd possiblity   - That it encourages smoking...?  If you know anything about advertising and the human brain, you'd know that there is no such thing as bad advertising. 

                                                                                   X

Below: Mencken.  Who remembers Babbittry ?
(Babbitt. - A narrow-minded, self-satisfied person with an unthinking attachment to middle-class values and materialism.  After George F. Babbitt, the main character in the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.)

Witch Trials

The suppression of witchcraft was renewed after the reformation.  The puritan fervour
of the establishment at the time of James I saw superstition and the 'old religion'
everywhere and wanted it rooted out.  Folk customs / herbal remedies were all seen
as part of the old religion and hence a threat to the new order, so this was all labelled
 sorcery and evil along with Popery/Catholicism.

The concentration of witch trials in Lancashire is interesting as this is the most catholic
 part of England today.  Being to the west, then it was similarly a 'wild' region as notably
the puritan stronghold was in the east and the south.  This is because the west then, as now,
has the influx of the Irish.

These great persecutions had their high points under James I and Oliver Cromwell, both
raised Calvinists.  Of course Cromwell famously took his fight against the irrational
into Ireland and is remembered evermore at Drogheda.

 Rhino Horn

"Unless their demand in the far east is abated, they're doomed to disappear off the face of the earth".





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A Monarchist-Anarchist note

Something has gone awry in English monarchy;  

it has fossilised.    

                                       It is quite obviously doubtful that we are in a Monarchic Age.  Before the rollicking blip of Charles II, there was posited the notion of "Divine Right", or divinity, a complete misconception of anointment.   This  attitude, not seen since Caligula, was impassioned once again by Cranmer in the post-Renaissance, northern humanism.
Absolutism could also be called Obsolescence.

Monarchy hints at nothing more than a dynamic mystique of grace, thrust by martial prowess and chivalric magnanimity.
 
Unsurprisingly, the upset began with a break with the 

direct line - Richard III, - the carpark king -
a meekling, deposed in a military coup by Henry VII 

on Boswell field.  Perhaps it began and ended with the
ignoble falsification of his reputation (why the need 

to explain, prove or justify your 'right' ? - quite un-royal, but the absolutist position par-excellance).  


The usurper's son, Henry VIII, caused a major disruption 

by heeding his low-born advisers - parvenus all -
in staging the Dissolution, murdering Queens,

and unwittingly ushering in (after relatively short
 
reigns of Edward VII, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I) the Elizabethan age - 

of Elizabeth I ,who's mother, Ann Boleyn was judiciously and cowardly executed by her own father.
She, in her turn, had her unplanned successor James 1

mothers head toppled (Mary, Queen of Scots). 
James I, as Elizabeth before him, were puppet-

monarchs to the Cecil Lords.  This whole period could be
viewed as a ill-conceived and badly conducted relapse to  viking, pagan barbarism*, an attempt to return and renew but driven by a feeling but without lucidity.

The Tudor period stands as a reign of one of the most disordered and psychopathic dynastic episodes in world history.

 
In this gross deviation from organic tradition, Monarchy became hampered by advisers, mandarins, ministers, bureaucrats, 'judges', and parliaments.  The familiar territory of Pharisees and Sadducee's.   

Suffice to say, by the introductions of  the Hanoverians we had essentially, a surrogate, cadet line filling the vacuum of real (royal) Monarchy.  From Anointement, we arrive at mere Appointment. 

   
Now that they actually no longer rule in any way defacto, and the 'right' is disturbingly questioned, and largely now a matter of 'better than nothing' - solely a shadow, an ambassadorial vassal, merely a commercial brand worth maintaining, no longer for the rights of it's subjects - but justified solely by 'divine' right.   


*in the skin of a "reformed christianity".  In truth, it had nothing to do with theology, only an ersatz, boring
emulation of prior papal excesses in the Italian Renaissance.

Cranmer, by Gerlach Flicke.