Tuesday, October 21, 2008

I HAD INTENDED TO BEHAVE THIS BLOGGING YEAR ... but

I feel a big wobbler coming on.
Problem?
I cannot quite decide which damned mess to concentrate upon.
Anyway at least one thing comes out.

Those that rage about "Marxism" now find themselves able to actually read that body of wicked work.
In fact, it seems, that the works of Karl Marx are selling again and are no longer banned by the blue meanies of the media.

9 comments:

Merkin said...

Faster and faster it goes.
We must keep up while we have the energy.

anticant said...

You sound like a spinning dervish - or a leaping nun.

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry, but where on earth do collateralised debt obligations, credit default swaps and short-selling occur in Collected Works? The sub-prime market, to the extent that it was geared to getting the poor onto the property ladder, hardly constitutes a good example of the successive immiseration of the proletariat.

The only 'naked shorts' Marx would have known about would have had to do with the effects of Engels's buttlaziness, gassing off all that time when he should have been out saving his father's textile factory from ruin.

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Merkin said...

'I'm sorry, but where on earth do collateralised debt obligations, credit default swaps and short-selling occur in Collected Works?'

Had to laugh at newsnight tonight.

One of the Tories talked about a post-modernist sleaze scandal.
That is, in the old 'scandals' there was some meat - in this one nothing happened, apparently.

Thought of Zola.

Anonymous said...

But just take a new look at the 1844 Paris manuscripts.

Merkin said...

When I was in Poland, I lived in a street called 'Paris Commune Street' at one point.

I got the manuscripts in me.

zola a social thing said...

Never a point better made from my own rather over-rational words. But, at the same time, never a subtle support for the critique within.

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