06-26-2021, 02:54 PM
(06-26-2021, 08:10 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:(06-01-2021, 02:13 PM)Einzige Wrote:(03-19-2021, 04:16 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: Karl Marx - did he have any distinctly Transcendental traits? He didn't advocate for going back to nature or for expressing emotion freely.
S&H said there wasn't any Civic generation between Transcendentals and Missionaries. Maybe in America, but in Britain and Europe there was. I propose "Victorials" as the name for this tentative generation. Karl Marx was a Victorial with his industrialization fetish. His theory of scientific development of society has a similar feel to one proposed by Herbert Spencer
If you don't actually read Marx I can see how you might think this.
I've read Trotsky and I think it's mostly the same thing, but I'm open to your corrections. What distinctly Transcendental traits did Marx have?
Transform Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau into the most radical socialist of the mid-nineteenth century and you have Karl Marx. Thinking far outside the political or religious orthodoxy of the time is Idealist. So is putting a new ideological or missionary twist onto some existing political or religious orthodoxy of the time.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.