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Old 05-27-2009, 11:26 AM   #13
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You obviously didn't read the text.

The Faust passage Marx refers to is quoted above. What you are speaking of is this passage now: "I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has a power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?"
And this is Marx's interpretation of the above quoted passage of Faust.

Now go read the whole text.
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