Carrol Cox wrote:
"friends should have all things in common."
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71phs/phaedrus.html
The way I construe that is "Only guardians are capable of friendship:
Screw the rest of the featherless bipeds."
Marx didn't appropriate this aspect. His "appropriations" are
"sublations."
“'If,' dreamed Aristotle, the greatest thinker of antiquity, 'if
every tool, when summoned, or even of its own accord, could do the
work that befits it, just as the creations of Daedalus moved of
themselves, or the tripods of Hephaestos went of their own accord to
their sacred work, if the weavers’ shuttles were to weave of
themselves, then there would be no need either of apprentices for the
master workers, or of slaves for the lords.' [73] And Antipatros, a
Greek poet of the time of Cicero, hailed the invention of the water-
wheel for grinding corn, an invention that is the elementary form of
all machinery, as the giver of freedom to female slaves, and the
bringer back of the golden age. [74] Oh! those heathens! They
understood, as the learned Bastiat, and before him the still wiser
MacCulloch have discovered, nothing of Political Economy and
Christianity. They did not, for example, comprehend that machinery is
the surest means of lengthening the working-day. They perhaps excused
the slavery of one on the ground that it was a means to the full
development of another. But to preach slavery of the masses, in order
that a few crude and half-educated parvenus, might become 'eminent
spinners,' 'extensive sausage-makers,' and 'influential shoe-black
dealers,' to do this, they lacked the bump of Christianity."
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm
Ted
