Would be interested in your comments.
Karen,
What sort of comments would you like? These are essays by others about Marx, the first looks to be a chapter, perhaps, from a book which I don't know, the second some sort of note, and the third is some one's, I think, unpublished essay on Marx.
If you want to get some ideas about Marx on capitalism, read the Manifesto. It's very easy to read, is most often the basic text used to introduce students to Marx's thought, and has some of the most effusive language about capitalism one can find in a major 19th century theorist's writings. Capitalism, I know you know this but it's worth repeating, was a huge and categorical step, in Marx's view, beyond prior political-economic forms. And it's important to remember that the focus of his criticism was the form "capitalism" took in the middle of the 19th century.
If you are interested, the best way, in my view, to get some semblance of a bit of "seeing" what he saw, more concretely, is Engel's book on The Condition of the Working Class in England. Here's the Amazon url. amazon.com
But I suspect a serious discussion of Marx' writings on capitalism are not exactly what Bill had in mind for this thread, particularly with his little comment about being a pro like Karl Rove (and to which he should have added James Carville to be balanced ;-(). |
