_The Manifesto of the Communist Party_, _Value, Price and Profit_, et al are more
accessible to popular audiences.
CB
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Brad DeLong wrote:
>>I'm amazed that the literary qualities of even chap. 1 of Capital
>>are being called into question. Section 4 is one of Marx's most
>>deservedly famous passages, the analysis of commodity fetishism,
>>which blends political economy, pyschology, philosophy, and
>>cultural analysis in dazzling ways. As much as I admire Keynes as a
>>stylist, nothing he wrote holds a candle to this.
>>
>>Doug
>
>The Yale Humanities Major speaks: º4 may be dazzling to you literati
>but 'tain't hardly accessible to the toiling masses...
First, I'd say that the toiling masses aren't as dumb as a lot of
intellectuals think. And second, I don't think Capital was written
for the toiling masses as its prime audience - though it'd be a lot
more comprehensible to them than just about anything in the JEP.
Doug
