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[Autoplectic]

On 5/7/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 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.

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The first sentence has serious problems re the use of 'independence'.........

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