Title: Paradise on Earth: A Christian Utopia
1Paradise on EarthA Christian Utopia
byDr Alessandro Scafi,The Warburg Institute,
Univeristy of London and the University of Bologna
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68Utopia in 19th Century ThoughtUtopian images in
Marx and Engels The German Ideology
by Professor Terrell Carver,University of Bristol
69Utopian Imagesin Marx and EngelssThe German
Ideology
- Terrell Carver
- Professor of Political Theory
- Department of Politics
- University of Bristol
- t.carver_at_bristol.ac.uk
70Current revisions
- Marx and Engelss relation to the utopians of
1845-46 - Understanding of the text and its presentation
elements of debate - Critique of the interpretive tradition and
editorial process from 1923 to date - Critical assessment of Marx and Engels as
utopians
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73Relationship to utopians
- Read retrospectively through Engelss 1880
Socialism Utopian and Scientific - Sharp binary and harsh judgements of commentators
recently questioned - More nuanced position in 1845-46
- Makes The Communist Manifesto, Part IV (1848),
rather more exciting
74Take-away points
- Interpretive traditions are often retrospective
and anachronistic - Changing the interpretive lens makes familiar
texts say things differently - Texts do not say one thing even at the time
of writing or publication - The understanding of politics, and what counts as
a (legal or acceptable) political idiom, alters
with structural and cultural change - Beware timeless pastiche in intellectual
history!
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82Hunting, fishing, criticising
83German text 2004
84German apparat
85Japanese edn (1974)
86New translation/presentation
- Therefore as soon as the division of labour IS
starts to develop, each
exclusiveman has a particular,
area of activity that constrains him,
that he cannot get out of he is a hunter,
fisherman or or critical
criticherdsman must
remainas such unless he wants to lose HIS the
87Cont.
- means to live whereas in communist society,
where each man does not have an exclusive area
of activity, RATHER but can rather develop
himself in any branchES he likes, society
MERELY regulates the general production thus
makes it possible for me to do one thing today
and another
88Cont.
- to
hunt,tomorrow, in the morning TO BE A
SHOEMAKER AT MIDDAY IN THE AFTERNOON A to
fish, to herd
livestock,GARDNER, in the evening TO BE A
PLAYWRIGHT,and to criticise after dinner,
just as
I have
89Cont.
- without ever becoming hunter,a
mind, or
critic.fisherman or herdsman.
90Smooth text with handwriting
- another tomorrow, in the morning to hunt, in
the afternoon to fish, in the evening to herd
livestock and to criticise after dinner, just
as I have a mind, without ever becoming
hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.
91Commentators reactions to this passage over the
years
- 1. Sharp criticism
- 2. Sympathetic reconciliation
- 3. Sympathetic omission
- 4. Puzzlement
92Marx and Engels as utopians critical assessment
- Hi-tech, high productivity
- Anti-money
- Anti-consumption
- Pro-leisure time
- Compatible with feminism, anti-colonialism,
ecologism - How much high tech do we need?