[lbo-talk] From another thread

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 27 11:40:46 PST 2009


At 10:07 AM 11/27/2009, Ted Winslow wrote:


>I quoted Marx saying that.
>
>Shakespeare on "money" - on "avarice" - is "universal"; as is, so Marx
>claims, Balzac.
>
>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.



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