Thursday, October 8, 2009

Give me some after-dinner play Johnny

In the awkward extrapolations of Karl Marx that so often wriggles its way to the frothy top of things it is easy to forget the underlying humanism that is the basics of what the man argued. In his work The German Ideology, Marx argued that a man should be, must be, free to "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner . . ." The proletar-ization of the working class steals from us the opportunity to do these things for ourselves - to be both well and self-fed and have the energy to tend to other metapysical and social concerns. There are those, however, who manage just this sort of self-actualization, in the evening at least, just as Marx prescribed:



-fp

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