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No original: "That Marxism is a secular religion seems self-evident. But just which religion is it tracking? That is not always so clear. It comprises much of traditional Christian eschatology: the fall of man, the Messiah, his suffering and humanity’s vicarious redemption, the salvation, the rise and so on. Judaism is there too, but less in substance than style. In Marx and in some of the more interesting later Marxists (Rosa Luxemburg, perhaps, or Léon Blum)—and without question in the interminable German Socialist debates conducted in the pages of Die Neue Zeit—we can readily discern a variety of pilpul, the playful dialectical self-indulgence at the heart of rabbinical judgments and traditional Jewish moralizing and storytelling (pt) |
