Re: query: Marx "quote"

[Matthijs Krul <mccaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> did Marx ever say anything like "Societal deviations in terms of the
> distribution of wealth for example, must be minimized"? (supposedly he
> said this in CAPITAL, according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, THE BLACK
> SWAN, p. 242.) It seems totally out of character.
>
> --
> Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
> way and let people talk.) --  Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
>
>

In Anti-Dühring, Engels on the contrary says this:

" Thus in 1868, private property and wage-labour are naturally necessary
and therefore just; in 1876 both of these are the emanation of force and
"robbery" and therefore unjust. And as we cannot possibly tell what in a
few years' time may seem ethical and just to such a mighty and impetuous
genius, we should in any case do better, in considering the distribution
of wealth, to stick to the real, objective, economic laws and not to
depend on the momentary, changeable, subjective conceptions of Herr
Dühring as to what is just or unjust."

That seems rather the opposite position of Taleb's claim, although I can't
really parse the sentence you've quoted.

Matthijs Krul