The 78th Session of the UN General Assembly

A universal critical Marxist reading

     The desire for wealth and power has been the dominant human craving since the agricultural revolution established the material conditions that made possible their accumulation, primarily through conquest of lands and peoples.  This prevailing drive of conquest provided the foundation for the construction of the great civilizations of human history, which paradoxically included great advances in philosophy, literature, the arts, and commerce.  Empires and kingdoms emerged, known to us today as central to the human legacy.

     During the era of the great civilizations, there emerged a spiritual reaction and resistance, formed by prophets that are known and even revered today.  They formulated alternative visions of a more just distribution of the material means and needs of human existence and/or attention to the harmony of the soul with the divine.  Their extensive followings have made evident the essential human impulse toward spirituality.  However, the empires and kingdoms were…