John Dunn

Fichte and the the Promethean struggle

Saturday, 20 July 2024 at 21:39

Fichte and the the Promethean struggle

Hegel offered a secular ‘New Testament’ to Spinoza’s ‘Old’. In reality, Hegel ended up providing the self-sustaining motor of return to the Absolute that was lacking in Spinoza’s own philosophy. It only needed Marx to turn Hegel on his head, consciously in opposition to Fichte, to complete the return, setting Spinoza ‘right side up’ again in the process. Above all, Marx was a Spinozist rather than a Hegelian. The shadow of the Hegelian dialectic that remained as a materialist teleology in Marx’s work was the determinism, necessitarianism and passive fatalism of Spinoza’s philosophy. The Hegelian dialectic of progression masked the philosophy of return, which had existed from the start in the Lurianic Kabbalah of exile and return, adopted by Spinoza. In academic philosophy, the myth of succession has held sway, with Hegel and Schelling perpetually presented as the heirs and successors of Fichte, rather than his opposite. So what did Fichte represent? He represented the Promethean struggle, the assertion of the same individual will that had attained crown and mitre in Dante’s Divine Comedy, the will which later thundered in the symphonies of Beethoven and the art of other Romantics. What did Schelling and Hegel represent? They were Spinozists.

(From Child of Encounter)

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Peak anti-feudalism

Wednesday, 17 July 2024 at 22:09

Johann Gottlieb Fichte
(Pencil & ink portrait, Humboldt University Library, Berlin)

Peak anti-feudalism

Fichte’s philosophy represents a peak anti-Spinozism and a peak anti-feudalism, expressing Renaissance ideas, i.e. pro-nation state, but anti-oligarchy,anti-globalism. Fichte had turned the monist materialist Spinoza on his head in formulating his own idealist philosophy of the Absolute I. Rather than continue his work, Hegel and Schelling sought a path of mediation between Fichte’s Absolute I and a persistent and residual external reality.

(From Child of Encounter)

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Dante and Fichte

Tuesday, 16 July 2024 at 21:25

Engraving after the fresco in Bargello Chapel, painted by Giotto di Bondone in the 14th century

Dante and Fichte

Dante was pre-eminent in establishing humanism as the new philosophy of the Renaissance (or post-feudalism). That philosophy reached its zenith with Fichte, even though it did so as the Counter-Renaissance reassertion of feudalism (or neo-feudalism) was complete. Fichte’s philosophy was developed behind enemy lines so to speak. This made Fichte’s philosophy not so much the ideological successor to feudalism, but rather a key influence upon the Romantic reaction to the dominant neo-feudalism

(From Child of Encounter)

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The basis of all political and philosophical creeds

Monday, 15 July 2024 at 21:46

Spinozism and Kabbalism

The basis of all political and philosophical creeds

Marx in fact endorsed the subjugation of the straw man capitalists and presented this state of affairs as an historical necessity, which was generated by the capitalists’ own overthrow of feudalism. However, Marx’s presentation of a progression was, in fact, masking a process of return. Marxism thus became the political and philosophical arm of the neo-feudalist financial globalisers. Marxism is the basis of all the so-called Left and Right political and philosophical creeds of our time.Anarchism, communism, socialism, liberalism, libertarianism and conservatism, as well as Marxism itself are all rooted ultimately in Spinozism and Kabbalism, and serve to promote Tikkun.

(From Child of Encounter)

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What is Marxism masking?

Sunday, 14 July 2024 at 21:24

What is Marxism masking?

So what is Marxism masking? Answer - the old central banking monopoly based on nothing less than public debt and public credit, which implies an extension of this monopoly to control over public revenues and issue of currency. It masks a controlled central banking system with monopoly powers over the wider banking system, a power which, unless broken by government, becomes a political power that is greater than government. It masks the fact that the so-called capitalist entrepreneurs as well as the state are subsumed under feudal usury. As in all ages, the surplus is produced at the point of production. The question as always is - how is that surplus extracted and where does it end up? It is extracted through a neo-feudalist usury that again, as in all ages, has no respect for borders or other barriers to its operation.

(From Child of Encounter)

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Controlled radicalism

Saturday, 13 July 2024 at 22:11

Controlled radicalism

Capitalism- a pejorative term used by socialists in the nineteenth century - was amyth perpetrated by Marx. Capitalism was not a new and progressive economic phenomenon. However, the myth gave the neo-feudalists a controlled opposition, both philosophically and politically. Through a controlled radicalism, the workers were led to oppose a straw man - the capitalist class - with the promise that the next and inevitable stage in history would mean the overthrow of that class and result in freedom from exploitation.

(From Child of Encounter)

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Metamorphosed return to pre-Renaissance feudalism

Friday, 12 July 2024 at 21:53

Paolo Sarpi

Metamorphosed return to pre-Renaissance feudalism

The outcomes of the so-called Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution were no teleological advance. This was not a shift from feudalism to capitalism. Rather they marked a metamorphosed return to pre-Renaissance feudalism, establishing new ways in which to extract and share the surplus produced by the producer-class, not through serfdom, but rather through the wages system, central banking and taxation. The pre-Renaissance exploiters operated in a monetary economy that existed in parallel to a world ruled over by kings and princes. Following the French revolution, economics as monetary accounting moved to centre-stage. The state and state trappings of kings, princes, presidents and parliaments were co-opted as the guarantors, not of a feudal hierarchy, but of central banking, taxation and debt collection by means of physical force. This was the system first established in Venice, then later in the Netherlands, Britain, France and the USA. This was Sarpi’s ‘Republick of Merchants’ writ large. The pressure to extend this system has resulted in constant geo-political upheaval over the past two and a half centuries.

(From Child of Encounter)

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