Re: [Marxism] cool Hegel quote from Lefebvre

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 22, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> Max Clark wrote:
>> 'The life of the Spirit is not that life which shrinks from death  
>> and seeks to keep itself clear of all corruption, but rather the  
>> life which endures the presence of death within itself and  
>> preserves itself alive within death..' -Hegel, The Phenomenology of  
>> Mind [Quoted in Henri Lefebvre's *Dialectical Materialism*]
>
> Speaking of cool quotes, here's one from an op-ed piece in today's NY
> Times written by a woman doing a book on Jews and money:
>
> I remember attending a small dinner party where George Soros was one  
> of
> the guests; it made sense to me that he held the floor when he  
> discussed
> matters he was expert on, but I couldn’t figure out why all of his
> opinions, on whatever subject — be it interior design or the value of
> single-sex schools — were treated as equally valid. And then it  
> occurred
> to me: he was much wealthier than the other dinner guests, which meant
> that everything he said was ipso facto of sovereign interest.


Here's another from the same page (by Maureen Dowd):
"The tableau of Michelle Obama hoisting a pitchfork on Friday with her  
sinewy arms and warning that the commander in chief would be  
commandeered into yard work left me wondering if the wrong Obama is in  
the Oval."

Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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