He’s a spicy writer so there’s a lot but here’s vol 1 part 4 ch 15 section 9:
“We shall return again in Volume 3 to the fanatical opposition of the manufacturers to those clauses which imposed on them a slight expenditure on appliances for protecting the arms and legs of their ‘hands’. Here is yet another dazzling vindication of the free-trade dogma that, in a society of mutually antagonistic interests, each individual furthers the common welfare by seeking his own personal advantage!”
That’s btw from the Penguin version. I tried to show that to someone today but they had the Wordsworth version (publisher) or something like that and it was much much less spicy in that version/translation.
Would love to hear your favorite Marx zinger!
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This bit from the 18th Brumaire always stood out to me:
Your power ceases on the second Sunday of the lovely month of May in the fourth year after your election! Then your glory is at an end, the piece is not played twice, and if you have debts, look to it quickly that you pay them off with the 600,000 francs granted you by the constitution, unless, perchance, you prefer to go to Clichy on the second Monday of the lovely month of May!
