The Language of Marxism
‘Roger Gatham’ writes Limited, Inc. HERE:
“Marx and the devil 2”
“What Adam Smith, in the true eighteenth-century manner, puts in the prehistoric period, the period preceding history, is rather a product of history.”
Comment
A classic example of Marxist mystical prose that means different things depending on how how you read it. Capital is full of them – see Surplus Value, Labour Theory of Value – and it creates the semi-religious feel throughout his writings. Cod intellectualism at its worst; discussed endlessly by graduate thesis writers – to be fair, Roger Gatham comments on the phenomenon in his piece - impressing others with the evidence that they understand Marx's thinking and the listeners stare in bewilderment, and if impressionable, with adoration.
“Marx and the devil 2”
“What Adam Smith, in the true eighteenth-century manner, puts in the prehistoric period, the period preceding history, is rather a product of history.”
Comment
A classic example of Marxist mystical prose that means different things depending on how how you read it. Capital is full of them – see Surplus Value, Labour Theory of Value – and it creates the semi-religious feel throughout his writings. Cod intellectualism at its worst; discussed endlessly by graduate thesis writers – to be fair, Roger Gatham comments on the phenomenon in his piece - impressing others with the evidence that they understand Marx's thinking and the listeners stare in bewilderment, and if impressionable, with adoration.
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