[lbo-talk] life maxim

John Costello joxn.costello at gmail.com
Wed May 16 09:56:15 PDT 2007


That's wonderful. I'm stealing it.

On 5/16/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Just saw this in a friend's sig line:
>
> The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theater, go dancing, go
> drinking, think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more
> you save and the greater will become that treasure which neither
> moths nor maggots can consume — your capital. The less you are, the
> less you give expression to your life, the more you have, the greater
> is your alienated life ... So all passions and all activity are
> submerged in greed – Karl Marx, notebooks, 1844
>
>
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