Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 07:12:09 -0600
From: kcampbel-AT-csf.colorado.edu (CyberMarx)
Subject: Re: Capital I, chapter 15


>"In many industries, there are critical periods... The shortness of the time
>allowed for the work is compensated for by the large mass of labour thrown
>upon the field of production at the decisive moment. The completion of the
>task within the proper time depends on the simultaneous application of
>numerous combined working-days; the amount of useful effect depends on the
>number of labourers; this number, however, is always smaller than the number
>of isolated labourers required to do the same amount of work in the same
>period." (Capital 1, p.310)
>
>And: "When numerous labourers work together side by side, whether in one and
>the same process, or in different but connected processes, they are said to
>co-operate, or to work in co-operation." (ib., p.308)

Heh. These words are to be chiselled over the entrance to this, the Gulag
Marx-Engels, right, Hinrich? I should create a page for it, with a marblized
background, in the explanation of what the Marx-Engels list is. And set an
"HTML trip-wire" to play a copy of the Internationale when people load it.

Speaking of which... music. Gina-the-Friendly-Maoist from the Marxism list
is sending me her compilation of Internationale renditions in various
languages. I'm going to transfer these into a real-time audio format
(probably Internet Audio, certainly not Real-Audio, the latter costing
thousands of bucks to install). Real-time audio, while far lower in sound
quality, does let the person hear the music immediately, instead of waiting
for that tedious download, etc. Of course, we should also provide a higher
quality (probably mpeg audio) version which they can grab if they simply
insist on having it as their computer-bootup theme song, or to frighten away
the in-laws when they visit, or whatever.

As with most work I've done on the M/E site, this will be done in "batches"
-- that is, short but intensive periods of work, squeezed in between regular
work. If anyone else has any tune-age they think should be added to our new,
uh, "Karl & Fred Jukebox-a-rama," please make high quality copies and send
them to the previously mentioned snail mail address soon.

Ken.