Marx: ‘But unheroic though bourgeois society is, it nevertheless needed heroism, sacrifice, terror, civil war, and national wars to bring it into being.

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

Marx: ‘But unheroic though bourgeois society is, it nevertheless needed heroism, sacrifice, terror, civil war, and national wars to bring it into being. And in the austere classical traditions of the Roman Republic the bourgeois gladiators found the ideals and the art forms, the self-deceptions, that they needed to conceal from themselves the bourgeois-limited content of their struggles…’

What can you say to our current culture, where bourgeois affect, being a businessman or billionaire, are admired at a moral level, and heroism and sacrifice and classical civics are the traditions being abandoned?

[darklyglassdarkly@aus.social]

@liamvhogan "shit's fucked" - Diogenes of Sinope.