Re: Re: Re: Economics and Literature

[Brad DeLong <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> At 01:54 PM 09/09/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > Marx is a medium rank master of the German
> > language, not as great as Heine or Lessing, but in the neighborhood of
> > Nietzsche. The canard that he is turgid and unreadable is just that, a duck.
>
> Marx's reputations as a turgid writer seems to arise from...

The first few chapters of _Capital_. They *are* turgid and nearly
unreadable, in the standard English translations at least...


Brad DeLong


P.S.: Dierdre McCloskey was claiming this morning that Marx had never
visited either a farm or a factory. Does anyone know of documented
counterexamples?