October 29, 2003

Er, what dialectics were those, anyway?

A somewhat querulous Karl Marx speaks from the grave. Sample:

KM: Hegel Schmegel. I must tell you a secret: I never actually read, except in the most cursory fashion, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit or his Science of Logic. Life's too short.

DS: This will be a bit of a shock in some quarters.

KM: People should read the great English economists, Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Well, not really English: one's a Scot, the other a Sephardic Jew-clever people of good stock, who know the value of money. Germans like Hegel transform hats into ideas. I prefer the Brits who transform ideas into hats.

Funny stuff, with a point (I think). Link lifted from Max.

Posted by Linkmeister at October 29, 2003 03:26 PM
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