>I quoted Marx saying that.
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>Shakespeare on "money" - on "avarice" - is "universal"; as is, so Marx
>claims, Balzac.
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>Such "universality" is his genius.
I wouldn't disagree.
>Marx "appropriates" Greek drama in the same way:
This is where I would disagree. Even though you put it in quotation marks, I think appropriate misses the mark. Marx *studied* Shakespeare and philosophy and his immersion in such things helped make the sentences he wrote as full of multiple meaning as lines from Shakespeare.