Re: Marx's life and theory (fwd)

[Carrol Cox]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> . For example, only 4 years ago Joel Kovel wrote a lengthy piece in
> CNS that argued that Marxism is weak on ecological questions because it
> lacks a spiritual dimension.

I always have thought that the Unconscious was the Holy Ghost in 19th-c
positivist disguise. That old reactionary jerk T.S. Eliot had an appropriate
comment on such things in his reaction to Arnoldian attempts to make
literature a substsitute for religion. I don't remember how he worded it,
but the core idea was that if you rejected religion, then get on with it
and don't moon about looking for substitutes. Spirituality is a more or
less corrupted form of human social solidarity. Among the atomized
individuals of capitalist society spirituality becomes absolutely
corrupt.

Carrol