X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Wiki/blobdiff_plain/bdbfead9101ee370cf937f01efe748eeb3791a01..c07c8c28d04ffc9be24f5ec96694c15c4a4a4bd8:/Sources/Page/MarxQuotes.djot diff --git a/Sources/Page/MarxQuotes.djot b/Sources/Page/MarxQuotes.djot index 5b8aca3..7dd653b 100644 --- a/Sources/Page/MarxQuotes.djot +++ b/Sources/Page/MarxQuotes.djot @@ -359,8 +359,8 @@ Either the personal is political, or politics is insufficient for > people and founding a political community, should solemnly proclaim > (Declaration of 1791) the justification of the egoistic man, man > separated from his fellow men and from the community, and should -> even repeat this prose lamation at a moment when only the most -> heroic sacrifice can save the nation and hence is urgentity +> even repeat this proclamation at a moment when only the most +> heroic sacrifice can save the nation and hence is urgently > required, when the sacrifice of all the interests of civil society > is highly imperaive and egoism must be punished as crime > (Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1793). @@ -487,5 +487,70 @@ In fact the sensual world of pleasures Foucault imagines is, ⅌ Marx, a It does not precede it. [][@:Lady]{.sig}) +## from _On Proudhon_{as=cite}[^DSD161718] + +{as=figure} +:::::::::::::::::::::::::: +> But in spite of all his apparent iconoclasm one already finds in +> _Qu’est-ce que la propriété_{as="cite" lang="fr"}? the +> contradiction that Proudhon is +> criticising society, on the one hand, from the standpoint and with +> the eyes of a French small-holding peasant (later +> _petit bourgeois_{as="i" lang="fr"}) +> and, on the other, that he measures it with the standards he +> inherited from the socialists. +> +> The deficiency of the book is indicated by its very title. +> The question is so badly formulated that it cannot be answered +> correctly. +> _Ancient “property relations”_ were superseded by _feudal_ property +> relations and these by “_bourgeois_” property relations. +> Thus history itself had expressed its criticism upon past +> _property +> relations_. +> What Proudhon was actually dealing with was _modern bourgeois +> property_ as it exists today. +> The question of what this is could have only been answered by a +> critical analysis of “_political economy_,” embracing the totality +> of +> these _property relations_, considering not their _legal_ aspect +> as +> _relations of volition_ but their real form, that is, as +> _relations of +> production_. +> But as Proudhon entangled the whole of these economic relations in +> the general legal concept of “_property_,” +> “_la propriété_{as="i" lang="fr"},” he could +> not get beyond the answer which, in a similar work published before +> 1789, Brissot had already given in the same words: “_La propriété +> c’est le vol._{as="i" lang="fr"}” +> +> The upshot is at best that the bourgeois legal conceptions of +> “_theft_” apply equally well to the “_honest_” gains of the +> bourgeois +> himself. +> On the other hand, since “_theft_” as a forcible violation of +> property _presupposes the existence of property_, Proudhon +> entangled +> himself in all sorts of fantasies, obscure even to himself, about +> _true bourgeois property_. +{as=figcaption} +::::::::::::::: +“What is property?” is a bad question; +Proudhon’s answer, “Property is theft!”, presupposes property. +::::::::::::::: +:::::::::::::::::::::::::: + +When writing _Oppenheimer_{as="cite"}, Christopher Nolan apparently + believed that two people who have both ostensibly read the entirety + of _Capital_{as="cite"} would both attribute “Property is theft!” to + Marx. +[][@:Aescling]{.sig} + [^Easton1967]: Translated by Loyd D Easton and Kurt H Guddat, © 1967. + +[^DSD161718]: + From _Der Social-Demokrat_ Nos. 16, 17, and 18; as + [republished](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/letters/65_01_24.htm) + by Marxists.org