Christian Gregory wrote:
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Workers of the World, Unite!
If you confuse my argument with Bloom, you reduce Marx to a Utopian socialist -- socialism is merely a moral exhortation rather than a necessary alternative to barbarianism.
As to MP your general statement about Austen is correct -- she was profoundly conservative. Your specific remarks belong in Cliffs notes and are the cliches of the most superficial tendencies in the history of criticism of austen. You are probably also correct in your invocation of burke, but it is childish to leap from a general philosophical account to an attempt at specific analysis of a text. You are prfoundly wrong in your amateurish invocation of "sense & reason" as though their content were self-evident. You might read Empson's _structure of complex words_.
You & Catherine both seem to see the ideal of human life to be the dot-like isolation, as marx puts it in the _grundrisse_, of the laborer in bourgeois society.
The slogan, Workers of the World, Unite, makes sense only if it is, to _begin_ with, a statement of what is already, always has & always will be. This I take it, is the point of departure for Lukacs's _history & class consciousness_.
Carrol