Inland, Dreaming of Waves

Pertinent or impertinent?

I copyedit a lot of books for Lynne Rienner Publishers in Boulder, Colorado. My most recent project, about how the Internet will probably NOT solve all the economic problems in the developing world, included this quote from a speech by Karl Marx on the anniversary of the Peoples’ Paper (see Berman 1988, 20):

“The new-fangled sources of wealth, by some weird spell, are turned into sources of want. … At the same pace that mankind masters nature, man seems to become enslaved to other men or to his own infamy. … All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and stultifying human life into material force.”

posted by Price of Silence @ 9:21 AM