There is a specific aspect of Marx’s theory of capitalism that isn’t sufficiently emphasised. And that is Marx’s view that capital is an actual entity — a being with a mind of its own that op…
It’s quite firmly marxist, just uses the occult as a basis for historical materialist analysis. Makes a compelling case for how the functions of religious concepts are embedded under the surface of the logic of capital etc.
Now your dreams will never again be so peaceful. You will see capital in your nights, like a nightmare, that presses you and threatens to crush you. With terrified eyes you will see it get fatter, like a monster with one hundred proboscises that feverishly search the pores of your body to suck your blood. And finally you will learn to assume its boundless and gigantic proportions, its appearance dark and terrible, with eyes and mouth of fire, morphing its suckers into enormous hopeful trumpets, within which you’ll see thousands of human beings disappear: men, women, children. Down your face will trickle the sweat of death, because your time, and that of your wife and your children will soon arrive. And your final moan will be drowned out by the happy sneering of the monster, glad with your state, so much richer, so much more inhumane.
It’s quite firmly marxist, just uses the occult as a basis for historical materialist analysis. Makes a compelling case for how the functions of religious concepts are embedded under the surface of the logic of capital etc.
Cool, thanks! I’ll read it.
I’m comfortable with all those themes personally, as I’m a very philosophically religious Leftist, but not every writer does them well.
see also
https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/#automatic-subject
and
—Carlo Cafiero, Summary of Marx’s Capital (1879)
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