Someone quoted former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley: “I’ve read Marx as well, that doesn’t make me a communist”. The poster added: "Banning a book, any book - including Mein Kampf - says more about the lack of morality in the person banning the title than it does about the morality of the author."
I wrote a comment on that.
At my conservative Christian highschool, for several months in a row once a week, we had rather factual history lessons about Marx, Marxism and Communism. The author of the textbook? His name is Banning.
So when you wrote "Banning a book", for a moment I thought you were talking about him. I never noticed that pun before (and I'm 70 this year). So our textbook already had the word "Banning" printed on it.
Rev. Willem Banning was a well known Dutch 'left leaning' pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church. The textbook contained many quotes of Karl Marx' writings (like Das Kapital), Friedrich Engels and historic-materialist philosophy. I've learned a lot of those lessons, among other things the Christian background and prayers of Friedrich Engels, Marx' concept of "Verelendung" - capitalism would make the poorer poor, which in Europe was countered by revisionist socialist movements and especially in the Northern countries by Christian Democratic parties and Cooperatives in agriculture and insurance, also pope Leo XIII (taken as an example by the present America pope) played an important role in that movement - and "Selbstentfremdung", (the risk of) alienating from yourself when work and work-force is only ruled by money and by bosses without inherent sense and motivation, which are both from a psychological point as well as from a biblical point of view important discussions, and it helped me in thinking about my own work, as an employee as well as being self employed and being an employer for some time, and moreover how to be free and independent and inherently motivated in whatever role or state you are (a popular topic in the US as well).
Anyway, in fact I only wanted to react to the phrase "Banning a book": I recommend the book by Banning.
Rev. Willem Banning was a well known Dutch 'left leaning' pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church. The textbook contained many quotes of Karl Marx' writings (like Das Kapital), Friedrich Engels and historic-materialist philosophy. I've learned a lot of those lessons, among other things the Christian background and prayers of Friedrich Engels, Marx' concept of "Verelendung" - capitalism would make the poorer poor, which in Europe was countered by revisionist socialist movements and especially in the Northern countries by Christian Democratic parties and Cooperatives in agriculture and insurance, also pope Leo XIII (taken as an example by the present America pope) played an important role in that movement - and "Selbstentfremdung", (the risk of) alienating from yourself when work and work-force is only ruled by money and by bosses without inherent sense and motivation, which are both from a psychological point as well as from a biblical point of view important discussions, and it helped me in thinking about my own work, as an employee as well as being self employed and being an employer for some time, and moreover how to be free and independent and inherently motivated in whatever role or state you are (a popular topic in the US as well).
Anyway, in fact I only wanted to react to the phrase "Banning a book": I recommend the book by Banning.
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