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[writer_lynn]

Okay, so 20 pages of Marx and I need a mental break. Ah the joys of reading material that makes your brain hurt.

Marx-Engels Reader
Second Edition

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[mcguffin]

Yup, and it's a reader. Marx offers good critiques of capitalism, but he's best read in small doses.

[writer_lynn]

That says it all. Small doses. :)

I've read his later stuff, but this is all his early writings, at least the reading I am currently on. Some of it is not finished and other parts he goes on and on and on trying to make a point about something abstract only to come back to the concrete that we see later in his works.

[magni]

I think my favorite person to make my brain hurt was Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, the most convoluted sentences know to man in English. It took me a very long time and many heart to hearts with my professor to figure out the weakness of his argument. God I miss college in some ways.

[writer_lynn]

Hahaha... yes. I did him last year.

[magni]

Fun wasn't he, though wow that is going back a few years for me, maybe 19 years ago. Does not seem in my minds eye so long ago.

[mrogre]

Hi.

[writer_lynn]

Hi! Long time no see or hear. Glad the evil toilet did not eat you.

[mcguffin]

I heard that ogreposey was "eaten by the grue"

[egregious Zork reference]

[viski]

Try reading both that and the Hegel reader at the same time and comparing their views of reality and the state. There's your mind-melter. =P

[writer_lynn]

Yeah, I did that last year. I did a paper on Marx's version fo Hegel.

[atolnon]

I miss school. >_>

[writer_lynn]

Indeed. I think there is something so satisfying about making your brain work in ways that the real world outside of college does not require of you.

[mcguffin]

The outside world makes your brain work too, it's just in different ways

[writer_lynn]

I love you Bill.