Interesting interview <https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/intellectual-affairs/2024/09/27/interview-translator-marx-opinion> by Scott McLemee with the translator.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/intellectual-affairs/2024/09/27/interview-translator-marx-opinion On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 11:12 AM Charlie via groups.io <charles1848= sbcglobal....@groups.io> wrote: > From the NY Times article, it appears the purpose of the new translation > is to demean and ridicule *Capital*. Has a university press done that to > any other classic text, like Shakespeare's plays? That the guardians of > capitalist ideology need to do this is testimony that Marx's political > economy still scares the s--t out of them. > > > -- Seek for food and clothing first, then the Kingdom of God shall be added unto you. Hegel, 1807 The class struggle, which is always present to a historian influenced by Marx, is a fight for the crude and material things without which no refined and spiritual things could exist. Nevertheless, it is not in the form of the spoils which fall to the victor that the latter make their presence felt in the class struggle. They manifest themselves in this struggle as courage, humor, cunning, and fortitude. They have retroactive force and will constantly call in question every victory, past and present, of the rulers. As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history. A historical materialist must be aware of this most inconspicuous of all transformations. -Walter Benjamin, Spring, 1940 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32731): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32731 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108835219/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
