From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Tue Oct 19 1999 - 09:56:31 MDT
> >"People make their own history, but they do not make it just as they
> >please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves,
> >but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted
> >from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a
> >nightmare on the brain of the living." -- Karl Marx
>"If Karl, instead of writing alot about capital, had made alot
>of it, it would have been much better." --Karl Marx's Mother
So, the tradition of the Jewish mother weighed like a nightmare on Marx
(according to him), and perhaps that explains some of his war against
spontaneously emergent capitalism: Marxism derives from rebellion against
Momism. Tsk, tsk.
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