[lbo-talk] The zen of marx (was clarification)

[Joanna]

Lakhsmi wrote

"I am not sure what Marx or you are saying. But from my surrealist social
justice perspective  I consider it rather astonishing that a natural
substance mined in horrendous conditions by degraded and abused workers
actually ascended to the heavens of the marketplace to become the God with
which everything else had to request humbly an exchange. So I would
juxtapose this image with this verse to show absurdity of bourgeois life,
the voracious exploitation of those who brought to the market a thing of
infinite power, the sacrifice of life and the enthroning of a thing.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3526/4079402424_4c3d5a2c37.jpg"

Funny thing, but on Marx's essay about money, it's Timon he winds up quoting.

http://marx.eserver.org/1844-ep.manuscripts/3rd.manuscript/4-money.txt

J.