Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality (2023) by Graham Jones

Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality (2023) by Graham Jones

Have you ever wanted to read an over-300 page book in which the words spiritual and spirituality appear 163 times?

Me, either.

Graham Jones has not written a book about UFOs and how they built the pyramids, however. There are no pleas here for saving the planet by making our own clothes. Instead, Jones is reaching out to help us use completely anti-Marxist mind-over-matter subjectivity to summon a socialist millennium.

Over a hundred years ago, Lenin called this God-building, though he and his fellow scientific socialists had some less nice words for it, too. 

Lenin's polemics was written after the defeats of Russia's 1905 revolutionary upsurge. A temporary retreat of working class and peasant militancy led some revolutionaries to seek salvation in spirituality; they did not blame themselves for the class retreat, or the dictatorship of capital, but the workers and farmers themselves.

Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality by Graham Jones was published in 2023 by Repeater Books. I have read a number of books from Repeater in the past, usually studies employing academic jargon to fuse explications of horror fiction with fashionable word salads of current cultural theory. Which is enough to make any reader cry out for spiritual escape.

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What Lukacs termed the “permanent carnival of fetishized inwardness” of the petty bourgeoisie goes on.

Jay

6 October 2024