• cucumovirus@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Similar to how Hegel criticized the christian call to "help the poor" because it presupposes a constant existence of poverty in order to feel good about its (ineffective) charity. A quote from Losurdo's Class Struggle:

    We are reminded of Hegel’s critical remarks on the Gospel commandment to aid the poor. Losing sight of the fact that it is a ‘conditional precept’, and absolutizing it, Christians also wound up absolutizing poverty, which alone could confer meaning on the norm enjoining aid for the poor. The survival of poverty was a precondition for Christians, or at least some of them, enjoying a sense of moral nobility attendant upon their aid for the poor. The seriousness of help for the poor should instead be measured by its contribution to overcoming poverty as such.

    • FanonFan
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      1 month ago

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      • cucumovirus@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        No problem! I've been reading through pretty much all of Losurdo's translated books recently and enjoying them all quite a lot. Class Struggle deals directly with Marxist theory, and it's definitely one of my favorites.