Value-Thing, Not Vibes: Defending Reitter’s Translation of Marx (& Brown's Introduction) Against Troglodyte Loyalists
What the point of an introduction is: to get you to the book. Brown’s concise roadmap versus Mandel’s interminable self-centered polemic. Clarity matters more than sectarian score-settling. And the point of a translation and an introduction is to translate and situate a book, not to create a new version of a 100%-correct religious totem for today... 1/
...Preserve the working of Marx’s intellectual and analytical gears, restore his strangeness, and so sharpen the potential focuses of productive critique…
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Value-Thing, Not Vibes: Defending Reitter’s Translation of Marx (& Brown's Introduction) Against Troglodyte Loyalists

What the point of an introduction is: to get you to the book. Brown’s concise roadmap versus Mandel’s interminable self-centered polemic. Clarity matters more than sectarian score-settling. And the...

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