> "A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a
> bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells.
> But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is
> this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he
> erects it in reality.
Golly! Who knew that Marx was such an idealist? And of course he was a very confident guy, bless him, but how could have known so much one way or the other about the subjectivity of the spider?
> At the end of every labour-process, we get a
> result that already existed in the imagination of the labourer at its
> commencement.
One gets the sense that the Old Man, with all his brilliance, didn't have much experience with hand tools.
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Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org