[Xmca-l] Re: Quote from Marx & Engels collected works vol. 12

[Huw Lloyd]

That was my first impression, although it leaves the first sentence
seemingly overly redundant.  So, the first sentence appears to be simply
saying, "there is a certain industry which determines the place and
influence of other industries, which is established by the relations within
this certain industry"?

Huw

On 1 March 2015 at 23:46, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> "Oilier" is "other"
> an OCR error
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> Huw Lloyd wrote:
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>> In Davydov's volume on generalization (p.119), he quotes Marx using the
>> word "oilier".  The citation is from Russian, but if anyone has the
>> English
>> this will be fine.  Is this a correct quotation?  Is oilier given a
>> meaning
>> or sense?
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>> "Every form of society has a certain industry which determines the place
>> and the influence of all oilier industries, and whose relations therefore
>> also determine the place and the influence of all other industries.  This
>> is a general illumination, in which all other colors disappear and which
>> modifies them in their features.  This is a special ether that determines
>> the specific weight of everything real that is detected in it."
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>> For those interested, Davydov's volume can be found here:
>> https://www.marxists.org/archive/davydov/generalization/generalization.
>> pdf
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>> Thanks,
>> Huw
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