Status Updates From Essential Writings of Karl ...

"Thus political economy [...] is a true moral science [...]. Self-renunciation [...] is its principal thesis. The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theater, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital." go off young marx

I'm only using this anthology for the 1844 manuscripts but man is this translation clunky. I'm using the pdf version on the marxist internet archive to supplement cuz its just unintelligible at times

This is hard to read 😿. I'm understanding more as I go but damn this is difficult.

Here's a cool quote: "Material force can only be overthrown by material force; but theory itself becomes a material force when it has seized the masses" (47).

Will finish manuscripts at a later date, goetha programme was good, manifesto is soso wage and labour is fine