DUHOVNA HIPOKRIZIJA NA PREUSTROJU
Americki SLP Newletter, December 2009. upozorava :
„When your enemies start to prise you, look out!
Marksa su klevetali mnogi, ali mnogo je vise onih koji ga jeftino podkradaju.
Tom prilikom prisjetiti se uzrecice koju Mudri upucuje Glupome:
„Cemu se toliko mucis nad tim drustvenim idealima. Cim nesto stvoris, tvoji ce neprijatelji prvi da se time okoriste.“
Ovdje je rijec o novim kontroverzama sto kruze svijetom o Vatikanskom priznanju Darwinizma, i nedavnoj „preporuci“ vjernicima da citaju Marxa.
SLP Newletter tom prilikom komentira Jezuitski list La civilta' Cattolica, kojeg londonski The Times sumira 22. oktobra:
„L'osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said yesterday that Marx's early critiques of capitalism had highlighted the 'social alienation' felt by the 'large part of humanity' that remained excluded, even now, from economic and political decision-making. Georg Sans, a German- born professor of the history of contemporary philosophy at the pontifical Gregorian University, wrote in an article that Marx work remained especially relevant today as mankind was seeking 'a new harmony' between its needs and the natural environment. He also said that Marx's theories may help to explain the enduring issue of income inequality within capitalist societies. „'We have to ask ourselfs, with Marx, whether the forms of alienation of which he spoke have their origin in the capitalist system,' Professor Sans wrote.
'If money as such does not multiplay on its own, how are we to explain the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few?'“
But the better part of The Times summary was in what followed :
„Professor Sans arques that Marx's intellectual legacy was marred by the misappropriation of his work by the communist regimes of the 20th century, 'It is no exaggeration to say that nothing has damaged the interes of Marx the philosopher more than Marxism,' he said.
„This“ The Times went on, „overturns a century of Chtolic hostility to his creed. Two years ago Benedict XVI singled out Marxism as one of the great scurges of the moder age. The Marxist system, whery it found its way into government , not only left a sad heritage of economic and ecological destruction of the human spirit,' he told an audience in Brazil.
„Then again the Pope has been busy reapprising modern capitalism. Benedict latest encyclical, Charity in Truth, offer a direct response to the recession, arguing tha global capitalism has lost its way and that Church teaching can help to restore economic health by focusing on justice for the weak and closer regulation of the market.“
All of this is unmitigated nonsense,of course, and only serve to underscore the fundamentally immoral and opportunistic nature of the Roman Chatolic Church. While it is certainly true that Marx ideas wery misappropriated by the „Cimmunist“and, for that matter, Social Democratic regimes of the 20th Century, it is equally disingenuous to contend „ that nothing damaged the interests of Marx the philosopher more than Marxism,“ by which it is meant to suggest that the misappropriation of Marx's „philosophical“ idea somehow did not extend to the social , economic cnd political institutions erected by the former Soviet Union and other so- called socialist regimes.
At the same time , the contentions also comprise a clear-cut case of confession and avoidance on the part of the Church and all others who have supported the capitalist system all along. If capitalism alienates and concentrates wealth to the detriment of society as whole, which it obiously does, then its cheerliders and apologist, among which the Church has failed a prominent and vociferous role, share in that responsibility, What the Church would argue, of course, is that capitalism has anti-social effects only becase itis not governed by Roman Catholic precept of morality, etc., which evidently do not include bearing false witness against one's neighbor, as the Church surely has agaist Karl Marx.
The simple truth is that Marx cannot be divided into two separate and independant parts and that his observations on the cruel effects of capitalism- the „philosophical“
half-flow from and are inesxtricably connected to his scientific dissection of how capitalism work. Capitalism creates „social alienation“ and lead to „the accumulation of wealth in the hand of the few“precisely because it is a class-divided society in which the means of life are monopolized by a few and that the working.- class majority are exploited throungh the wages system, exactly as Marx described in Capital and other works.
What all this does, of course, is reduce Marx from a scientist who got at the root of „alienation“ and the concentration of wealth, etc., to a mere observer of the effects-to a „philosopher“ who somehow got it right while getting it wrong, i.e., by drawing correct conclusion from false and erroneous premises.
When your enemies start to prise you, look out!
When they do that, it is absolutely certain that they are up to no good.
The Singers, the Fromms (and Social Democrats generally), the“Communist“- and now the Roman Chatolic Church- all „misappropriate“ Marx, each for they own special reasons.“
Post je objavljen 10.12.2009. u 13:00 sati.