[lbo-talk] quote

[Doug Henwood]

Marx, Grundrisse, p. 161, on the expanding scope of capitalist 
markets and the urge for acquiring information that it produces:


>the beauty and greatness of it: this spontaneous interconnection, 
>this material and mental metabolism which is independent of the 
>knowing and willing of individuals, and which presupposes their 
>reciprocal independence and indifference. And, certainly, this 
>objective connection is preferable to the lack of any connection, or 
>to a merely local connection resting on blood ties, or on primeval, 
>natural or master-servant relations.