QUIZ: ==== Hypothetical situation: Your name is KARL MARX. You are preparing an outline on your social theory, which is to include a critique of political economy, and which will "ultimately" lay bare the "economic law of motion of modern society", for the publisher of a printing house which has expressed a willingness to print your multi-volume work. You are trying to select an ending. Here are two possible endings. A. "My last chapter -- the climax and conclusion of my tome -- will be approximately 2 pages long and will ask (but not answer) the question 'What makes a class?'. In particular, I will note (and discuss in one short paragraph) the 'infinite fragments of interests and positions into which the division of social labour splits not only workers but also capitalists and land-owners -- the latter, for instance, into vineyard-owners, field-owners, mine-owners, fishery owners, etc.'" B. "the conclusion, the world market, in which production is posited as a totality and all its movements also, but in which simultaneously all contradictions are set in motion. Hence the world market is likewize both the presupposition of the totality and its bearer. Crises are then the general pointer to beyond the presupposition, and the urge to adopt a new historical form." Which ending do you select? (see below for third option) * I selected ending "A" because ______________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ * I selected ending "B" because _______________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ * I believe that the following option, which is different from "A" or "B" above, is the best ending: ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ______________I selected this ending because _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ End of quiz. Submit answers on list. Date due: May 1, 2001 or before. Late submissions will receive a reduced grade. In solidarity, Jerry
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