On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:14 PM Doug Henwood wrote: Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] profits
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> On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:11 PM, SA wrote:
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>> That must mean all his ideas are really simpleminded. If there were any
>> complexity to his thought he would write like Judith Butler.
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> Cheap shot, man. Marx isn't easy. I know a very reputable young novelist
> with excellent politics who found the first three chapters of Capital
> nearly impossible to get through.
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> Doug
Lenin wrote (in 1914-1916):
" Aphorism: It is impossible completely to understand Marx's Capital, and es- pecially its first chapter, without having thoroughly studied and understood the whole of Hegel's Logic. Consequently, half a century later none of the Marxists understood Marx!! "
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ch03.htm#LCW38_176
The young novelist may have missed the chance to get through the three chapters because he or she did not study or understand Hegel's Logic.
Mark