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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

WHAT'S IN A NAME?


Todd Gitlin just sent me a screen shot of a page from a new book by Shlomo Avineri about Marx.  The page concerns the complicated process by which Marx’s father, Heinrich, went from being Heinrich Levi to being Heinrich Marx [it involves the law requiring that lawyers in that place and time be Christians.]  Avineri asks, “Would a theory called “Levism” or later “Levism-Leninism” have the same appeal and resonance as “Marxism?”

Who knows?  But it occurred to me that if it were called Levism, a socialist uprising could be called a Levitation.

2 comments:

Dean said...

Imagine Leo Strauss picking up where Karl Levi left off.

Robert Paul Wolff said...

Bravo!!!