"......human beings have individual and collective material needs, and it is need, not individual contemplation or thought that provides human beings with their primary form of interaction with the world.......must labour together......they evolve evermore complex forms of production and social inter"
"The sensuous world . . . is not a given thing direct from all eternity, remaining ever the same, but the product of industry and the state of society . . . the result of the activity of a whole succession of generations, each standing on the shoulders of early writings the preceding one . . . (the r"
"1)Gold ‘will make black, white; foul, fair; wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant’....... 2)Money is the "universal whore"....... 3)Money turns all human natural qualities into their opposite."
"For the young Marx capitalism is a regime of alienation through and through; spreading from religion, to the state, labour, money, human relations, and even language. Liberal political emancipation, in the end, makes things even worse in some respects, even though it does represent progress in many "
"[The origin of the division of the classes] is supposed to be explained when it is told as an anecdote about the past. In times long gone by there were two sorts of people; one, the diligent, intelligent, and above all, frugal elite; the other lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in rio"
循序渐进,简明扼要,一本入门marxism的佳作。最后的assessment值得一读,但略乏深度。不论认同与否,marx关于anti-capitalism、anti-liberalism的insights都为生活在现代社会的“人”带来了更多反思的可能性,写了很多有关marxism的批评,但想了想还是让它们留在reading note里等待未来被继续修改、深入再make it public吧hhhhh(GV321,不出意外大三一定会选修这门课!)。最简要的总结——我与marx最大的不同是:marx激进且(对human essence,development of history,revolution)乐观,而我激进且悲观。