I’ve finally gotten around to reading this article. It both cleared some things up and made me more confused. Like…

He touched his shirt, pointed at my water bottle — “In this capitalist system, everything, including relations between people, is inhuman. Only when we socialize the means of production, are human relations possible. Only then, can human reason guide society.”

It was then that I understood his materialist outlook as similar to that of an eschatologist (end-times fundamentalist).

Man’s salvation does not derive from man. It is imparted to man by an external force, (for him, a materialist reality apprehensible by sense-certainty).

This view depends upon at least two axioms.

1. The universe is entropic (ruled by Satan).
2. Man’s nature is inherently bad, but he can be saved through the struggle against Satan’s evil world (through the sacrificial violence of class conflict)

These axioms allow for what Malthusianism will not permit, viz. that man’s increases in productivity be acknowledged & be considered good.

It allows for the existence of Reason—as an eternally distant condition, which nevertheless may come at any time (the Rapture).

Statements dreamed by the utterly deranged.