Jan-Maat’s Reviews > Marx > Status Update

"the general view (obviously derived from Hegel) that no element in the total process of history could be isolated & given a significance unaffected by the other elements - this view stayed with Marx throughout his life"
-this idea reminds me of dependant origination in Buddhism, probably only because I have a very limited grasp of both ideas!

"Engels indicted private property & its concomitant spirit of competition. Growing capitalist accumulation necessarily entailed a lowering of salaries & accentuated the class struggle. Uncurtailed growth of the economy meant recurrent crisis & the progress of science only served to increase the misery of the workers"

"Marx's income would have been quite adequate, had he known how to manage it carefully, but both he & Jenny had an extravagance (& generosity) that entailed continual financial crises. Marx was often to reflect that he, who wrote so much on capital, should have so little talent for managing it"