Sublime

Marx falava em pequena burguesia para indicar uma classe social que não se situava nos dois pólos da divisão social constituinte do modo de produção capitalista, bem como para indicar, por um lado, sua proximidade social e ideológica com a burguesia e não com os trabalhadores e, por outro, que, embora não fosse proprietária privada dos meios sociai

In its most dehumanizing form, this view sees individual people as interchangeable, separate repositories of this usable time stuff: as Marx put it, “nothing more than personified labour-time.”

Marx’s life had been filled with such abundance that he was one of those people who found it natural to care for those around him.

“To develop in greater spiritual freedom, a people must break their bondage to their bodily needs—they must cease to be the slaves of the body. They must, therefore, above all, have time at their disposal for spiritual creative activity and spiritual enjoyment.

The medievalists dreamed of abolishing the Industrial Revolution. The socialists wished to take it over. Both camps dismissed or gave only grudging acknowledgment to the achievements of capitalism. They preferred to eulogize the living conditions of previous ages. Friedrich Engels, along with Carlyle, regarded the domestic industry’s system of the

For Marx, however, these new industrial feats were just the tip of the iceberg. He believed that such changes in technology, production and social life, would come to form the basis of an entirely new society. This reflected his view of history as unfolding through an ensemble of fields encompassing not only technology, but also politics and our id

Vladimir Ulyanov,