Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Marx

of whom i eat, drink, sleep, breathe, and... debrief my professor regarding the economic theories.

read the communist manifesto. it's like 40 pages. you can do it.

"A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a think that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another. The nature of such wants, whether, for instance, they spring from the stomach or from fancy, makes no difference. Neither are we here concerned to know how the object satisfies these wants, whether directly as a means of subsistence, or indirectly as a means of production."

"The bourgeoisie...has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single unconscionsable freedom-- Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."

"...all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

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