Sigh.

Nay, more: instead of simply representing the style of a complete pussy, it enters now, so to say, into complete douche-baggery.

1. "In all honesty, I’m more amazed (enchanted) by the manner rather than the matter of Marx’s writing."

Yes; you emulate that manner usu. by writing things that sound like they say something but they don't.

2. Marx made everything sound like abstract philosphy.

There are these Capital Words; they are pronounced to inter-relate as the writer States; they lead to a Logical Conclusions as the Writer States; but really it's all just sort of tautological.

E.g., Labor, Kapital, etc., it all leads through Dialectical Struggle to Revolution as laborers get more and more in poverty, etc. etc.

Except: it didn't.

3. Instead they went for social democracy + capitalism in Europe.

Capitalism regulated by a strong Labor or SD party to install socialized medicine, free tuition, 6 week vacations, etc. pretty much has produced the most successful societies in the world.

PArt of our problem here in USA is we can't pas shit even when 60-70% of the people want it do to archaic Senate structures, we focus on the 10,000 nuances of "word" racism instead of more real issues like health care and jobs and the economy, and even people on the left hink we have some kind of American exceptionalism that means we're so different than everywhere else we can find and have to find a new American way to live. Thus, most progressive right now are supporting the Obama health care plan when it leaves insurance companies in play (non-providers of health care) (and ditto for the HRC plan) instead of real, effective health care which pretty much around the world has only come through socilizing that entire sector.

Oops, my comments had "matter" in them and are poor in "manner"! Sorry!!

In A Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on on a wet, black bough.

I think that we all know that Chuck's work is all style, no substance and of highly questionable value (as anything other than very bad "poetry").

Basically sort of like a Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork Bag http://www.luxuo.com/2008/05/most-expensive-louis-vuitton-handbag.html

But at a much higher price to us all.