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Originally Posted by Olympic Flame
Egalitarianism and ideas of equality are heavily present in Christianity.
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It is true that the Christian gospels frequently exalt the poor at the expense of the rich and powerfu,l but modern state-imposed egalitarianism is purely secular.
And if you are rich enough and powerful enough you will always be able to buy yourself out of the system, anyway.
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All men are equal is also enshrined in the constitution of the United States of America back in the 18th century.
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...unless you were black. In the USA the usual claptrap became hypocrisy on stilts.
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Claiming to be anti-egalitarian in western world seems more to be a revolutionary progressive rather than a reactionary conservative.
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I don't follow you. The chief opponents of egalitarianism have been conservatives - not necessarily reactionaries - and what we would now call libertarian liberals.
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Egalitarian and equality are not simply marxist creation. What Marx saw as unjust and oppressive societies as fault of uncontrolled capitalism at his time, was predicted by him to fall inevitablely by growing proletariat consciousness.
It was the western neo-marxists who used non-Dialectical approach, as opposed to Marx's dialectical materialism,to extend Marxist ideas from primarily economic/class focus to social and cultural focus which Karl marx himself had never done so.
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Of course this is a very important point. Marx claimed to be able to predict an inevitable future. Popper, who would have termed Marcuse and co 'Vulgar Marxists' pointed out before the last war that the Marxist thesis had failed because virtually all its predictions had already proved to be false.
But now, courtesy of the Frankfurt School and its hangers-on, we have pick-and-mix Marxism suitable for every sharp-suited yuppie. People like Bear gabble the rubbish they think other people want to hear them spouting without stopping to think how utterly inane it is.
Egalitarianism is partly about empty rhetoric and partly about the State bullying those whom it is in a position to bully. Do we bully Mr Murdoch or the Peoples' Republic of China? No of course we do not.
The Equality Emperor has no clothes.