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>From: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org]On
>Behalf Of kelley at pulpculture.org
>
>We don't want to pluck the flowers from
>the chain and wear the chain without any consolation. We want to break the
>chain and cull the living flower.
>
>Who chains up flowers? The master's tools thing I kind of get, but chaining
>up flowers is plain silly, and why would I think of wearing the chain after
>I picked the flower?
>
>
I believe the metaphor Marx used here was a set of chains that had been
disguised with flowers.