05-07-2016, 08:11 PM
Kinser,
I have to thank you. You and your eclectic perspectives on things always make for an interesting read.
Further, you inspired me to break out some reading that I've not looked at for over fifty years, back when I was an undergraduate. And even then, I think I wasn't up to the material, or mature enough to really consider it, or still too unsophisticated and too much of a backwoods boy to think about it.
I've both skimmed and carefully re-read all or part of The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, Value Price and Profit, and The Poverty of Philosopy.
As a side-study I've also been reading the biography of Jean Jaures, the brilliant French socialist whose life ended all too soon, to an assassin's bullet. One can only wonder if Jaures and his fellows could have made their influence more felt, that WW-I might have even been avoided?
Back to Marx - I'm sure that I'm not the advocate of Marx that you are, but I've found that my re-reading his stuff is fascinating. He got a lot of it right in my opinion. And the general theory pans out occasionally. Of course, it seems to me that it falls way short in other areas.
In any case thanks. I've enjoyed this detour in my reading. Re-reading is often an excellent diversion!
I have to thank you. You and your eclectic perspectives on things always make for an interesting read.
Further, you inspired me to break out some reading that I've not looked at for over fifty years, back when I was an undergraduate. And even then, I think I wasn't up to the material, or mature enough to really consider it, or still too unsophisticated and too much of a backwoods boy to think about it.
I've both skimmed and carefully re-read all or part of The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, Value Price and Profit, and The Poverty of Philosopy.
As a side-study I've also been reading the biography of Jean Jaures, the brilliant French socialist whose life ended all too soon, to an assassin's bullet. One can only wonder if Jaures and his fellows could have made their influence more felt, that WW-I might have even been avoided?
Back to Marx - I'm sure that I'm not the advocate of Marx that you are, but I've found that my re-reading his stuff is fascinating. He got a lot of it right in my opinion. And the general theory pans out occasionally. Of course, it seems to me that it falls way short in other areas.
In any case thanks. I've enjoyed this detour in my reading. Re-reading is often an excellent diversion!