http://www.redpepper.org.uk/reconstructing-marx/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/reconstructing-marx/#comment-15603 Little Richardjohn Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:52:27 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=3807#comment-15603 How about Marx in the Sermon on the Mount? Let them pick holes in that.
“Ideas may not change, but emphasis shifts constantly. It could be claimed, for example, that the most important part of Marx’s theory is contained in the saying: ‘Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.’ But before Marx developed it, what force had that saying had? Who had paid any attention to it? Who had inferred from it — what it certainly implies — that laws, religions and moral codes are all a superstructure built over existing property relations? It was Christ, according to the Gospel, who uttered the text, but it was Marx who brought it to life. And ever since he did so the motives of politicians, priests, judges, moralists and millionaires have been under the deepest suspicion — which, of course, is why they hate him so much.” http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/eaip_01

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