6/11/2023 0 Comments Plutocracy 3 class war![]() ![]() The four most conspicuous periods or ‘landmarks in the history of political degeneration’, and, at the same time, ‘the most important … varieties of existing states’, are described by Plato in the following order. The Marxian formula ‘The history of all hitherto existing societies is a history of class struggle’8 fits Plato’s historicism nearly as well as that of Marx. “According to Plato, internal strife, class war, fomented by self-interest and especially material or economic self-interest, is the main force of ‘social dynamics’. The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato In the case of Marx’s philosophy of history, the law is economic all history has to be interpreted as a struggle of classes for economic supremacy.” In the case of racialism, this is thought of as a kind of natural law the biological superiority of the blood of the chosen race explains the course of history, past, present, and future it is nothing but the struggle of races for mastery. Both theories base their historical forecasts on an interpretation of history which leads to the discovery of a law of its development. Marx’s historical philosophy substitutes for it the chosen class, the instrument for the creation of the classless society, and at the same time, the class destined to inherit the earth. For the chosen people racialism substitutes the chosen race (of Gobineau’s choice), selected as the instrument of destiny, ultimately to inherit the earth. ![]() Its value as such can be seen from the fact that its chief characteristics are shared by the two most important modern versions of historicism, whose analysis will form the major part of this book-the historical philosophy of racialism or fascism on the one (the right) hand and the Marxian historical philosophy on the other (the left). ![]() “In the present chapter, the doctrine of the chosen people serves only as an illustration. ![]()
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