marx
homework storage dump. this isn't meant to be a concise summary of marxist thinking or serious academic contemplation, more like a gut reaction of things that catch my eye + vocab list.
from Alienation & Social Classes
Theses on Feuerbach
Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
and something else i can't remember, located right after either the alienation article or feuerbach article
Marx on revolution: "Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so can we not judge of such a period of transformation by its own consciousness."
"For some days my vexation made me quite incapable of thinking; I ran about madly in the garden by the dirty water of the Spree, which 'washes souls and dilutes the tea'. I even joined my land-lord in a hunting excursion, rushed off to Berlin and wanted to embrace every street-corner loafer."
On the Doctors' Club, which came to have importance in the Young Hegelian movement
On recognizing the vanity of intellect and making an idol of a view one hates
"I burnt all the poems and outlines of stories, etc., imagining that I could give them up completely, of which so far at any rate I have not given any proofs to the contrary."
"In controversy here [at the Doctors' Club], many conflicting views were expressed, and I became ever more firmly bound to the modern world philosophy from which I had thought to escape."
What a title!: For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing
Marx's 11th thesis: it is the task of philosophy not simply to interpret but to change the world
On how The German Ideology (Marx and Engels' critique of post-Hegelian philosophy) was banned from publication: "We abandoned the manuscript to the gnawing criticism of the mice all the more willingly as we had achieved our main purpose - self-clarification."
"The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing ... forgets that it is men who change circumstances and that it is essential to educate the educator himself." --Theses on Feuerbach
vocab list
contradistinction: distinction by opposition or contrast e.g. plants and animals in contradistinction to humans
erstwhile: former; of times past e.g. erstwhile friends.
acme: the highest point; summit; peak
haha, this icon is relevant in a whole new way.
also, nothing gives me a more enormous sense of well-being and satisfaction than walking down the streets of new york listening to asian dub foundation. i end up swaggering.
from Alienation & Social Classes
Theses on Feuerbach
Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
and something else i can't remember, located right after either the alienation article or feuerbach article
Marx on revolution: "Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so can we not judge of such a period of transformation by its own consciousness."
"For some days my vexation made me quite incapable of thinking; I ran about madly in the garden by the dirty water of the Spree, which 'washes souls and dilutes the tea'. I even joined my land-lord in a hunting excursion, rushed off to Berlin and wanted to embrace every street-corner loafer."
On the Doctors' Club, which came to have importance in the Young Hegelian movement
On recognizing the vanity of intellect and making an idol of a view one hates
"I burnt all the poems and outlines of stories, etc., imagining that I could give them up completely, of which so far at any rate I have not given any proofs to the contrary."
"In controversy here [at the Doctors' Club], many conflicting views were expressed, and I became ever more firmly bound to the modern world philosophy from which I had thought to escape."
What a title!: For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing
Marx's 11th thesis: it is the task of philosophy not simply to interpret but to change the world
On how The German Ideology (Marx and Engels' critique of post-Hegelian philosophy) was banned from publication: "We abandoned the manuscript to the gnawing criticism of the mice all the more willingly as we had achieved our main purpose - self-clarification."
"The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing ... forgets that it is men who change circumstances and that it is essential to educate the educator himself." --Theses on Feuerbach
vocab list
contradistinction: distinction by opposition or contrast e.g. plants and animals in contradistinction to humans
erstwhile: former; of times past e.g. erstwhile friends.
acme: the highest point; summit; peak
haha, this icon is relevant in a whole new way.
also, nothing gives me a more enormous sense of well-being and satisfaction than walking down the streets of new york listening to asian dub foundation. i end up swaggering.