Economic-Philosophic Manuscript Of 1978 As It Were Part II — Robert Paul Wolff

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II. A Meditation upon two passages in Capital... To appreciate Marx as ironist — like Socrates contrasted to Aristotle, Professor Wolff might say — it is useful to recall that Marx was a thorough-going 19th century materialist who was quite aware that the world was still in the throes of the Renaissance transition from the medieval theological and philosophical age to the modern scientific age.That transition, while along, is not yet complete and is manifesting as the dialectic between the traditional and the liberal. What emerges from this dialectic will be something new that bears resemblance to its parents but as emergent will be unpredictably new. That is to say the result will be synergetic rather than synthetic. It will be a feature of the digital age that is now being born as the

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