Re: Marx's life and theory

[Louis Proyect]

Whitehead:
>"When we think of freedom, we are apt to confine ourselves to freedom of
>thought, freedom of the press, freedom for religious opinions.  Then the
>limitations to freedom are conceived as wholly arising from the antagonisms
>of our fellow men.  This is a thorough mistake.  The massive habits of
>physical nature, its iron laws, determine the scene for the sufferings of
>men.  Birth and death, heat, cold, hunger, separation, disease, the general
>impracticability of purpose, all bring their quota to imprison the souls of
>women and of men.  

This sounds like Malthus to me, not Marx.

Louis Proyect

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