Wages should form the price of goods;
Yes, wages should be all,
Then we who work to make the goods,
Should justly have them all;
But if their price be made of rent,
Tithes, taxes, profits all,
Then we who work to make the goods,
Shall have--just none at all.
marx himself wrote some poems, very early in his life.
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lovely! thank you... i thought this poem was particularly interesting though, because it was written well before das kapital, so I guess it really isn't "marxian"... more like "ricardian-socialist" or soemthing
ReplyDeleteright :) it is all very early-Marx. i guess engels wrote a novel, dickensenian in nature, but i've never even read it. nor do i know when he wrote it. i went to the rethinking marxism conference last year and there was a panel on "the poetics of marx" -- it's where i learned about this stuff.
ReplyDeletethanks for the econ conversation link, surprisingly i'd never seen that...
sorry, dickens-esque is probably better (?). a realist novel about industrialist britain written in the late nineteenth century.
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