tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8938111885824771622.post3692019152511460571..comments2023-11-02T04:23:14.216-07:00Comments on IT WAS <br> HER <br> NEW YORK: To Continue Onc.o. moedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04842423601233807880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8938111885824771622.post-23141570870370826762013-06-05T04:42:35.556-07:002013-06-05T04:42:35.556-07:00An email from a family member:
Just read the blog...An email from a family member:<br /><br />Just read the blog and thought about something I recently read in a book on Marxism (Karl, that is, not the Bros.). I am reading about Marxism to try understand capitalism better as Marxism seems to be a critique of capitalism and to see what an alternative could be. This is the quote I thought of (from "Why Marx Was Right," by Terry Eagleton):<br /><br />"Capitalism has given birth to extraordinary powers and possibilities which it simultaneously stymies; and this is why Marx can be hopeful without being a bright-eyed champion of Progress, and brutally realistic without being cynical or defeatist. It belongs to the tragic vision to stare at the worst steadily in the face, but to rise above it through the very act of doing so. Marx, as we have seen, is in some ways a tragic thinker, which is not to say a pessimistic one."<br /><br />I want to be hopeful, and I don't want to be pessimistic or cynical. I would like to think of myself as a tragic thinker, too. That is more fitting for this child of Wednesday woe. Perhaps you are a tragic thinker. Like Beckett: "you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."<br /><br />c.o. moedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04842423601233807880noreply@blogger.com