A Morsel Of Mohr To Start The Day
Sometimes, before you leave the house for a day where the bullshit you wade through is measured in meters, it is necessary to fortify oneself with a little Marx. This is no more true than when the mire in which you slog is housed in a University. A last gulp of coffee then and a morsel of Mohr as I’m out the door.
‘The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself.’
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Introduction (1843)
‘The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.’
Karl Marx, German Ideology (1845)
September 9, 2010 at 12:36 AM
A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal or even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls.
Wage Labour and Capital
September 9, 2010 at 12:39 AM
that’s the idea!
September 9, 2010 at 10:49 AM
el teu blog sequeix perfecte! em sento identificat amb els articles i referències politques i culturals.
acabo d’arribar de la universitat de l’esquerra anticapitalista de l’estat espanyol (revolta globa-esquerra anticapitalista), hem recordat Bensaïd, Benjamin, Trotsky i hem actualitzat debats i idees per el combat actual.
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