I tried and failed. I am not doing very well at the moment. Grief is a cruel, cruel master.

I did get one response done today, though I wasn't terribly happy with the result. I will do my best to get more done tomorrow (the one I owe you is the priority, Matterspattern).

Louis Blanc, actually, and he coined the term not to refer to the market, private property, commodity exchange, etc, but the monopolization of commodity production by the owners of large-scale industry.

Marx clarified the historical basis of the regression of commercial society

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

Today I am going to finally catch up on those pending responses, at least those from the past week. If you've been waiting, I'm grateful for your patience.

“A regret arises. and this is the sensing of this separation, this contradiction, like the sadness accompanying the idea of living forces and the incompatibility between them and the corpse.”

'The collector delights in evoking a world that is not just distant and long gone but also better—a world in which, to be sure, human beings are no better provided with what they need than in the real world, but in which things are freed from the drudgery of being useful.'

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The Steam King, by Edward Mead
Quoted by Engels in The Condition of the Working Class in England

There is a King, and a ruthless King;
Not a King of the poet’s dream;
But a tyrant fell, white slaves know well,
And that ruthless King is Steam.

He hath an arm, an iron arm,

> Haussmann tries to shore up his dictatorship by placing Paris under an emer­gency regime. In 1864, in a speech before the National Assembly, he vents his hatred of the rootless urban population, which keeps increasing as a result of his projects. Rising rents drive the

> Marx took a stand against Carl Grün in order to defend Fourier and to accentuate his 'colossal conception of man.' He considered Fourier the only man besides Hegel to have revealed the essential mediocrity of the petty bour­geois. The systematic overcoming of this type in Hegel

I've only watched the beginning so far but the discussion between Matt McManus, Spencer A. Leonard, and theory underground on Nietzsche, liberalism, socialism, and democracy is great.

youtube.com/watch?v=GOtc8C…

I started working on those pending responses but was sidetracked into writing whatever this is. What started as a simple point became something more obscure, probably no more than an expression of grief on my part. At least I managed to write something. Hopefully I can maintain