Patrick wrote in 6467 > > >Marx's statement then is that accumulation is the god of capitalism. >The capitalist seeks to build up (accumulate) his capital and he can >only do this through an exploitative relationship with other persons >and by having no relationship at all to a morally and ethnically >righteous God. I for one do not deny that God may well be a black man or woman if this is what you mean by an ethnically righteous God! But I must say that I have trouble believing that if Marx's ethos had been infused with Christian humility he would have ever fired that most dangerous missle at the heads of the bourgeoisie. >In more politically loaded language, "Accumulate, Accumulate" is the >logic of the "anti-Christ." I would think Marx thought that the proletariat was the anti christ in its struggles to do away with all gods, heavenly and earthly. Rakesh
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