Tuesday, January 23, 2007

"Marx, like Comte, does not permit a rational discussion of his principles: you have to be a Marxist or shut up."

Source: Sandoz, Ellis. The Voegelinian Revolution. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

Page 28:

"[In Karl Marx] again we see the conflict with reason, almost literally in the same form as in [Auguste] Compte, in the dictatorial prohibition of metaphysical questions concerning the ground of being, questions that might disturb the magic creation of a new world behind the prison walls of the revolt. Marx, like Compte, does not permit a rational discussion of his principles -- you have to be a Marxist or shut up. We see again confirmed the correlation between spiritual impotence and antirationalism, one cannot deny God and retain reason.

"One cannot deny God and retain reason."

"Spiritual impotence destroys the orer of the soul. Man is locked in the prison of his particular existence. It does not, however, destroy the vitality of intellectual operations within the prison.

"Marx knew he was a god creating a world. He did not want to be a creature."

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