Wonderful article; thanks for posting this here. Fits well within the Gothic Marxist tradition.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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This sounds really interesting and I'd like to read it.
Just wondering, I'm not familiar with this site/writer, is it actually a well-formed thought or does it just get New Age, occult weird?
It's quite firmly marxist, just uses the occult as a basis for historical materialist analysis. Makes a compelling case for how the functions of religious concepts are embedded under the surface of the logic of capital etc.
Cool, thanks! I'll read it.
I'm comfortable with all those themes personally, as I'm a very philosophically religious Leftist, but not every writer does them well.
see also
https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/#automatic-subject
and
Now your dreams will never again be so peaceful. You will see capital in your nights, like a nightmare, that presses you and threatens to crush you. With terrified eyes you will see it get fatter, like a monster with one hundred proboscises that feverishly search the pores of your body to suck your blood. And finally you will learn to assume its boundless and gigantic proportions, its appearance dark and terrible, with eyes and mouth of fire, morphing its suckers into enormous hopeful trumpets, within which you’ll see thousands of human beings disappear: men, women, children. Down your face will trickle the sweat of death, because your time, and that of your wife and your children will soon arrive. And your final moan will be drowned out by the happy sneering of the monster, glad with your state, so much richer, so much more inhumane.
—Carlo Cafiero, Summary of Marx's Capital (1879)
Ian Wright's articles on specifically Hegel are intriguing to say the least.
I've had a bad taste in my mouth regarding Ian Wright since I read this paper also described on the same blog. I think he really screwed up his interpretation of Marx there, basically a neo-Ricardian reading that is the very source of the "mistake" he identified.
I'll take a look at this blog post though and comment if I have anything notable to write.