In a message dated 9/9/00 12:53:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<< Marx, for instance, often points to Shakespeare as a source of insight into
capitalist motives in general and into the money-making and money-loving
motives in particular.
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There is an excellent book by S.S. Prawer called Karl Marx and World
Literature, discussing Marx's use of litrary sources, and Robert Paul Wolff,
in addition to a fine technical study of Capital, Understanding Capitalism
has a literary analysis, short and sweet, called Moneybags Should Be So
Lucky. Incidentally I will say that for my money Marx is one of the finest
writers in the Marxist tradition, equalled in sheer literary skill, if by
anyone, only by Trotsky; and Marx is a medium rank master of the German
language, not as great as Heine or Lessing, but in the neighborhood of
Nietzsche. The canard that he is turgid and unreadable is just that, a duck.
--jks
