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

[Andy Blunden]

Here's the context:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/appx1.htm#p211
About 1/3 of the way down the paragraph beginning "Just as ..."

Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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Huw Lloyd wrote:
> 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?
>
> "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."
>
> For those interested, Davydov's volume can be found here:
> https://www.marxists.org/archive/davydov/generalization/generalization.pdf
>
> Thanks,
> Huw
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