Thursday, November 15, 2007

Code?

Is Marx speaking in code? There are a bunch of italicized words throughout this section of his texts. Words like: Proprietors, Greed, Commodity, Product of Labor, Means of Life, Producing Activity, Species-existence of Man etc...

Ok well all these words are nice but frankly this section was a bit too heavy for me. I couldn't follow Marx's whole argument. I realize that he's explaining a complex theory, but i did get lost.

What i did like was all the discussion over how the products of labor are the resume of that labor. That was an interesting product.

i also liked the quote 'what is life but activity' it just seemed wise.

so even that i didn't fully understand this section i do think it demonstrated Marx's wisdom, giving credibility to the texts.

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