>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:
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>> >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'
Yeah, that Marx fellow had a problem with not fully understanding the complexity of signs and significations. Good thing we're so much wiser today.
Doug