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Old 05-16-2021, 03:56 PM   #32 (permalink)
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I'm only a couple hundred pages in, but if you've read any continental philosophy before, you should be able to handle it. It definitely takes focus and could use brevity in places, but his poeticism and the diversity of materials he references make it worth it. I've heard similar things and while there is some dry economics, it's not nearly as rough as I was expecting. I'm also reading David Harvey's companion to Capital, which helps. I prefer it to the manifesto so far, Marx is better when he has space to breathe.
Geh. I really should start reading all that theory ****. Politically I'm lost and nihilistic aside from being firmly anti-capitalist and grounding my brain with socialist nerd **** might be productive.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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