> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just typed marx jewish question and got > > http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1844-JQ/ > > let me quote from it. > > <quote> > Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may > exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into > commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. > It has, therefore, robbed the whole world -- both the world of men and > nature -- of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man's > work and man's existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he > worships it. > > The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the > world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an > illusory bill of exchange. > > The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and > money is a real contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature; in the > Jewish religion, nature exists, it is true, but it exists only in > imagination. > > It is in this sense that [ in a 1524 pamphlet ] Thomas Munzer declares it > intolerable > > > "that all creatures have been turned into property, the fishes in the > water, the birds in the air, the plants on the earth; the creatures, too, > must become free." > > Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which > is contained in an abstract form in the Jewish religion, is the real, > conscious standpoint, the virtue of the man of money. The species-relation > itself, the relation between man and woman, etc., becomes an object of > trade! The woman is bought and sold. > The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of of the > merchant, of the man of money in general. > > <unquote>
Replace the word jew with corporation, and he might eveb make sense: > Money is the jealous god of Corporatism, in face of which no other god may > exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into > commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. > It has, therefore, robbed the whole world -- both the world of men and > nature -- of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man's > work and man's existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he > worships it. > > The god of the corporations has become secularized and has become the god of the > world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the corporation. His god is only an > illusory bill of exchange. > > The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and > money is a real contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature; in the > corporate religion, nature exists, it is true, but it exists only in > imagination. > > It is in this sense that [ in a 1524 pamphlet ] Thomas Munzer declares it > intolerable > > > "that all creatures have been turned into property, the fishes in the > water, the birds in the air, the plants on the earth; the creatures, too, > must become free." > > Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which > is contained in an abstract form in the corporate religion, is the real, > conscious standpoint, the virtue of the man of money. The species-relation > itself, the relation between man and woman, etc., becomes an object of > trade! The woman is bought and sold. > The chimerical nationality of the corporation is the nationality of of the > merchant, of the man of money in general. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
