Ralph Dumain Now on my web site, trying to keep my breakfast down:
"Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law" by Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/HJ-SP1.html <http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/HJ-SP1.html> Note: I usually post works by others for research purposes without editorializing. I offer this piece of odious Stalinist propaganda as a duplicitous version of holism and emergent evolution. Note the reference to Joseph Needham. The famous Red Dean of Canterbury, a Christian fellow-traveller and pro-Soviet propagandist, writing under the menace of World War, effects a curious alchemical fusion of Christian moralism, communitarianism, dialectical materialism, and mystical holism. His interpretations of the meanings of 'materialism' and 'atheism' are sly distortions and misrepresentations. Under all of the feelgood moralism is an ideology of collectivism and self-sacrifice completely foreign to the thought of Marx. Even if the examples of religious freedom are factually correct and not fabricated, Stalin's real motives and calculations for not pushing religious workers and peasants too far are left out of account. This is not only an exemplary piece of Popular Front sophistry, it reveals the ideological logic by which middle class moralism becomes the unwitting accomplice of totalitarian barbarism. -RD ^^^^^^^ CB: Appreciate this focussed reference to your criticism of "diamat", Stalinism, etc. Perhaps Cornforth helps to extract a rational kernel from this whole milieu of a "duplicitous version of holism and emergent evolution". As to "totalitarian barbarism" , let us learn from mistakes. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
