tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post6980637559104439953..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: Revisiting the Master's ToolsNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-28338894217275537852013-07-07T22:51:33.033-05:002013-07-07T22:51:33.033-05:00I'm simultaneously shocked and not surprised t...I'm simultaneously shocked and not surprised that nobody has commented on this yet. It's one of the best and broadly speaking most important things you've written, both on its own merits and as a skeleton key to understanding the underlying ideas behind what you write.<br /><br />It's always interesting to me to read a theoretical piece by someone whose work I admire and also with whom I have a social, if virtual, relationship. It's also interesting how you draw from thinkers that I've never read at all (Lorde and King excepted). I like how there are a whole lot of through which we can see the world.<br /><br />I'm trying to think of the single bit that Marx wrote that might be the best way in to his method. I am at a loss. It's either his 1844 bit on Alienated Labor<br /><br />http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm<br /><br />Or the passage on Commodity Fetishism from Capital<br /><br />http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4<br /><br />The problem with both is that they are parts of larger inquiries. However, they both are pieces that show how Marx did not approach the question of freedom in narrowly economic terms, despite his reputation. I only write all this because of how much his work has helped me develop my own thinking. Good reads.Billhttp://about.me/freeandeasywanderingnoreply@blogger.com