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Friday, September 4, 2009

City Marxing the Streets of Seattle

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:22 PM

A famous passage from Capital:

The consumption of labour-power is completed, as in the case of every other commodity, outside the limits of the market or of the sphere of circulation. Accompanied by Mr. Moneybags and by the possessor of labour-power, we therefore take leave for a time of this noisy sphere, where everything takes place on the surface and in view of all men, and follow them both into the hidden abode of production, on whose threshold there stares us in the face “No admittance except on business.” Here we shall see, not only how capital produces, but how capital is produced. We shall at last force the secret of profit making.

To most, this red sign is addressing the pedestrian; in my eyes, it's addressing Mr. Moneybags:

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Omgs! Dudes! Does it say "slow children at play" or "slow, children play"?

Deep Charles, real deep. And actually a Wittgensteinian interpretation of that sign would be vastly more interesting than another chunk of cut, dried and canned Marxism.

Posted by Lilting Missive on September 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y200/ro…

dun dun dun

Posted by cephi on September 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM

@2 OMG we need to send that to Glenn Beck ASAP so he can let everyone know that window-washers are in league with Obama and the Rockefellers to assassinate all our corner-office-dwelling good capitalist bankers!!! Down with the oligarhy!

Posted by samiaint on September 4, 2009 at 2:51 PM