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December 22 2012
As you will note the dateline, the Mayan deadline for the end of the world to begin taking place is past. Thank who. God? No. Thank superstition. The Mayan doomsday scare serves us one good revelation: that until such time as man attains complete understanding of his relationship with his fellow men and nature, he will continue to be enslaved by a metaphysical view of the world.
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Marx has put it quite clearly in a footnote in Das Kapital. He wrote: "The religious reflex of the real world can and only then finally vanish when the practical relations of everyday life offer to man nothing but completely comprehensible and intelligible relationship between man and his fellow man, and man and nature."
The words benefit me in various aspect of my life, particularly in these times when I'm headed for the homestretch of my journey. For one, I reckon religion in Marx's context. And politics too. The words are a great help.
Talking of religion and spiritual journeys, I have just posted Book Six of SHOES OF THE TRAVELER http://maoblooms.blogspot.com/ The Book deals comprehensively with my initiation into the working class struggle beginning the 70s. Contained in the Book is my own English translation of the Internationale, which goes:
Arise from your wretched existence
Slaves of hunger break loose from your chains
Justice is volcano erupting on the day of last judgment
Oppressors tremble now in fright, we who are oppressed rise and fight
To shake off our chains of enslavement and tomorrow become free men
This is the final class conflict, unite that we at long last win
The good fight of comrades the world has not yet seen
This the final class conflict, unite that we may put in place
The working class as ruler over all the Earth
Neither is there God nor Redeemer to grant our dream of salvation
And so it is our prayer ever to push our dear revolution
The wealth you make proclaim as your own
Embark on class liberation
Hold on fast to hammer and sickle
Pound your future fine like steel
This is the final class conflict, struggle for genuine liberty
Of all workers over the whole of the Earth
This is the ultimate conflict, the great fight for final conquest
By Internationale of the whole human race
This a my own English translation of the Tagalog lyrics sang during the period of my integration into the workers' revolutionary struggle of the 70s and beyond. I make no pretension whatsoever of doing it both in words and in nuance from the Russian original.
The translation is necessitated only by having to make the readers of the novel understand the Tagalog lyrics used in the novel, which is in English.
TOO LATE THE DIARY
December 22 2012
As you will note the dateline, the Mayan deadline for the end of the world to begin taking place is past. Thank who. God? No. Thank superstition. The Mayan doomsday scare serves us one good revelation: that until such time as man attains complete understanding of his relationship with his fellow men and nature, he will continue to be enslaved by a metaphysical view of the world.
Read More
Marx has put it quite clearly in a footnote in Das Kapital. He wrote: "The religious reflex of the real world can and only then finally vanish when the practical relations of everyday life offer to man nothing but completely comprehensible and intelligible relationship between man and his fellow man, and man and nature."
The words benefit me in various aspect of my life, particularly in these times when I'm headed for the homestretch of my journey. For one, I reckon religion in Marx's context. And politics too. The words are a great help.
Talking of religion and spiritual journeys, I have just posted Book Six of SHOES OF THE TRAVELER http://maoblooms.blogspot.com/ The Book deals comprehensively with my initiation into the working class struggle beginning the 70s. Contained in the Book is my own English translation of the Internationale, which goes:
Arise from your wretched existence
Slaves of hunger break loose from your chains
Justice is volcano erupting on the day of last judgment
Oppressors tremble now in fright, we who are oppressed rise and fight
To shake off our chains of enslavement and tomorrow become free men
This is the final class conflict, unite that we at long last win
The good fight of comrades the world has not yet seen
This the final class conflict, unite that we may put in place
The working class as ruler over all the Earth
Neither is there God nor Redeemer to grant our dream of salvation
And so it is our prayer ever to push our dear revolution
The wealth you make proclaim as your own
Embark on class liberation
Hold on fast to hammer and sickle
Pound your future fine like steel
This is the final class conflict, struggle for genuine liberty
Of all workers over the whole of the Earth
This is the ultimate conflict, the great fight for final conquest
By Internationale of the whole human race
This a my own English translation of the Tagalog lyrics sang during the period of my integration into the workers' revolutionary struggle of the 70s and beyond. I make no pretension whatsoever of doing it both in words and in nuance from the Russian original.
The translation is necessitated only by having to make the readers of the novel understand the Tagalog lyrics used in the novel, which is in English.
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