File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-25.113, message 17


Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:59:48 +1000
From: rws-AT-comserver.canberra.edu.au (Rob Schaap)
Subject: M-I: Who the hell ...


Just on Gary's nice note to Anthony.  This is from young Karl's 1844
Manuscripts ('Meaning of Human Requirements'):

'Thus political economy - despite its worldly and wanton appearance - is a
true moral science, the most moral of all the sciences.  Self-renunciation,
the renunciation of life and of all human needs, is its principal thesis. 
The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theater, the
dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing,
paint, fence, etc., the more you save - the greater becomes your treasure
which neither moths nor dust will devour - your capital.  The less you are,
the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life, the
more you have, the greater is the store of your estranged being.'

He was a clever young chap, wasn't he?  'Trouble is, I agree with every
word, but still lead the alienated life, and have no bloody treasure!  I
nice white collar at my neck, but still obviously a prol ...

And as for Pauline Hanson - I'm not sure she has, in that narrow little
head of hers, a coherent political programme worthy of the 'fascism' tag,
but I suspect she has backers who have.  I looked up sites where her speech
is recorded on the net, and the helpful afterword, proffered by one Jeff
Hill, strikes me as, well, familiar (I can't find the URL just at the
moment, but a search'll get you there if you have the stomach for it).

All the best, Rob (an old ugly straight who'd be proud to be seen in Gary's
company)




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