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We
have completed, or else begun, our consideration of the place of the classic
left in relation to the eonic history generated by the eonic sequence, hopefully
in the process showing both the significance, and yet limits, of conventional
leftist (usually Marxist) discourse. In a way we need a dose of someone
like Marx to properly evaluate our eonic sequence, for a simple reason: our
model in general speaks of the 'eonic observer' attempting, despite his
immersion in the history he wishes to recount, attempting to discover and
describe the eonic effect, and this requires more than just the realization of
the outcome of the modern transition, but more the amplification of
self-consciousness to an objectivity about the circumstances of that sudden
mechanization of outcomes in the wake of the greater action of the macro level.
Notable is the sluggish undertow that we see in the sudden conservatizing of the
realizations of modern freedom in the ideology of classical liberalism, no doubt
due to the sudden gigantism of the grafting of capitalism onto liberalism. This
realization might not do justice to the full potential of the transition, thence
the demands from the left of critique. Here the attempt to both analyze and realize the outcomes of revolutionary
modernity find their expression in the figures of the age of Marx's youth, in
the confusions of the revolutions 1848. We can't exclude this consideration,
even as we avail ourselves of a truly potent model for the explication of
liberal emergentism. We have a true powerhorse of theory at our fingertips, but
it comes with a price, that of a balanced assessment of the totality of
modernist emergentism, and beyond that of the greater eonic sequence
constituting evolutionary Civilization in the throes now of post-transitional
globalization. Although
the radical Marxist left can be seen via the basic matrix of eonic periodization
as post-transitional operatives, they arise just at the boundary between the
transition of macro to micro action and remain of intrinsic interest, and not
just historically. Lest this be a designation of 'Johnny come latelies' we
should demand a thorough study of first moments in the modern transition, and
not just that of Lutheran Reformers, those prophetic anticipations of the
bourgeoisie, but of Thomas Munzer, that Zoroastrian hothead about the business
of class struggle, at the dawn of modernity. We are left with the endgame, and a
Marxist question, did the modern transition fulfill its potential? Did the
gestures toward the equalization of the whole result in a success, or, as with
the fate of the Munzer himself, end in the restoration of the dominant classes?
We have but to compare the English Civil War with the 'revolution' of 1688 to
consider the difference and a possibly ominous answer to our question. In
perfect symmetry, figures such as Munzer at the start and Marx and Engels at the
end, induce a mysterious echo effect, and we should come to the conclusion
with that question raised at the beginning, which leaves us with a need to challenge
our depiction of evolutionary emergentism with its own implications, the
possible deficit of macro and micro action.
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