On Mar 17, 2009, at 2:22 PM, SA wrote:
> Haven't you figured it out? The particular events that occur in the
> world are just epiphenomena of the set of abstractions described in
> Vols. 1 through 3 of Capital and Mao's Little Red Book. Why bore
> yourself with mere shadows on the wall when you could behold The
> Idea on www.marxists.com?
But that's not Marx's method at all. Capital is full of quotes from the contemporary press, parliamentary testimony, official gov reports, etc. Of course, Mao's Red Book is written at the toddler level, so that's another story entirely. Me, I'd rather read Sandra Boynton.
Doug