Re: query

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

On Jan 15, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Jim Devine wrote:

> in his VALUE, PRICE & PROFIT, Karl Marx writes:
> > If you consider that two-thirds of the national produce are consumed
> by one-fifth of the population [the capitalists] ... you will
> understand what an immense proportion of the national produce must be
> produced in the shape of luxuries, or be exchanged for luxuries, and
> what an immense amount of the necessaries themselves must be wasted
> upon flunkeys, horses, cats, and so forth, a waste we know from
> experience to become always much limited with the rising prices of
> necessaries.<
>
> what did Karl have against cats?
> --
> Jim Devine


I don't know, but here's another cat sighting -- this time in The  
German Ideology:

<blockquote>A very cheap method to produce the semblance of being  
profound and speculative in the German manner.
For example:

Fact: The cat eats the mouse.

Reflection: Cat — nature, mouse — nature, consumption of mouse by cat  
= consumption of nature by nature = self-consumption of nature.

Philosophic presentation of the fact: Devouring of the mouse by the  
cat is based upon the self-consumption of nature.

<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ 
ch04b.htm></blockquote>

On the other hand, Lunacharsky said Lenin loved cats: "His favourites  
are children and cats; sometimes he can play with them for hours on  
end" (at <http://www.marxists.org/archive/lunachar/works/silhouet/ 
lenin.htm>).


Yoshie Furuhashi
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