Posted on 02/23/2004 11:16:05 PM PST by farmfriend
east from the Altai = west from the Altai.
Rousseau, the inventor of the modern "noble savage" concept, was also an intellectual architect of Marxism.
It's nothing more than a restatement of Biblical Eden: "Men in a state of nature do not know good and evil, but their independence, along with 'the peacefulness of their passions, and their ignorance of vice', keep them from doing ill" (A Discourse).
It's ironic that Godless, Utopian Marxism is ultimately based on a religious belief.
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