Marx believed in the ultimate victory of industry over finance (Grundrisse,Capital Vols.1-3).
The dichotomy between industry and finance is a false dichotomy even by his own account. Read Das Kapulutal. Industry and finance form a unity known as riches or wealth. Surely this supposed dichotomy is a nonsense with the benefit of hindsight. In this regard ,we think of Hitlerism and Hjelmar Schacht and Fink of the Reichsbank,their approach.
Let someone who was Irish working class answer both propositions,"There'll be money when we're gone.." (Dermot Mc Carroll after my mother,Mary Patricia).
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And while I'm at it, consciousness comes from species-being (Feuerbach) and social conditions. If you prefer,creation, background, society and conditions and upbringing,not a living deity alone since God leaves a lot to chance and doesn't always like to pump from below decks on a ship taking in water or take the helm of a ship heading for the rocks.
Everybody has a different experience of the Deity but in my experience,while interventionist when genuinely and needfully implored,he is largely laissez-faire.
As the Dalai Lama might say,"All things must pass except God's love and human suffering (and the Kindly Stranger such as Mr. Cheng Chui the Hong Kong Anglican who assisted me in Paris)."
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3.7.2023
Radio news bulletins in Britain and Ireland
Anyone who is remotely normal says of state media and Irish journalistic news-spinners and RTE bores,"I don't want to hear any shite about good financial conduct or listen to an old spinster give housekeeping lessons. If I need any advice I will go to an economist or well-read person not a bar-room philosopher or society hostess like you."
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18.4.2025
The German Disease,opposition to the Jews both rabbinical or secular drives German hatred of Schmiergeld ('easy money') and love of manual and intellectual labour.
The Germans' Anglo-Saxon 'cousins' certainly do not see work as a path to self-fulfilment and had to be taken in toe by a bourgeoisie to get them to work for social security and health services which they did not have under either Tory or Liberal. The limit those Liberal Unionists could manage was Joe Chamberlain's "municipal socialism". That was nevertheless one of the main starting points for national wellbeing developments.
Where vis-a-vis the German dichotomy of finance and industry,lies Britain's great enduring and overwhelming strength which will one day bring the return of usurious currency transfers?
It lies simply and solely in liberal visions of the mainstay of British society,the House of Commons,keeping the dark odours of German anti-Semitism out of public dealings. In the Magna Carta of 1214 (also known as the Treaty of Runnymede) the Crown enjoined the landed aristocracy "to pay the Jews the interest on their debts".
That effectively put England at ease with Jesus's injunction to "be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees" in a manner that allowed merchant and usurious liens to slowly displace the feudal system.
In 1845-6 in Brussels and in 1865-7 (The German Ideology, Capital) Marx appeared out of the blue to preach a line of prejudice straight from the Lutheran doctrine of anti-Semitism. By insinuation and in private correspondence in the 1870's,he opposed the system of paying interest on capital. That system was well established and integral to the working of the industrial society and the Free Trade economy of the day. Usury had mass appeal and was integrated into many capitalists businesses.
Marx's Germany was one lost in a philosophical enquiry and archaic reasoning and the consequent problems of German and Austrian chaos theory were deeply entrenched. The problems of immobility and inflexibility were mirrored in the anti-Semitism of preachers of the ruling classes and academia and particularly the Army. That was the case,too, in France because all were heavily indebted to the Jewish moneylenders and employers and resented them. The English if more uncouth than the French are a fairer minded race.
Anti-Semitism has been exported by the German Nazis and French millionaires to a backward country, Ireland in our times. Irish fascists are behaving brazenly and openly with the full backing of the barroom type. The debtors who do not realise that the Catholic Church and Islamic internet broadcasts offer no intelligent guidance on proper conduct in the temporal world have no insight. Their political doctrines and anti-Semitism is one feature of fundamentalist religiosity. Anti-Semitism has little to tell Irish people on good behaviour and the modern concept of citizenship and equality before the law. Many anti-Semitic traits were imported from Germany in the 1930's and are now deeply ingrained by "street scenes with fascists".
