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@coriander actually, i excerpted the good parts on my wiki here: https://wiki.ladys.computer/Page:MarxQuotes

@coriander he does a really great analysis and takedown of the liberalism inherent in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen tho, it’s choice

@coriander to be clear marx’s argument re: the jews in “On the Jewish Question” is that if America can be a Christian country despite abolishing state religion, then clearly political emancipation from religion is not the same thing as universal human emancipation, and the jews are not special in this regard and should be treated no differently from christians

but in the second part he digresses to say “hey antisemites, you may think you hate the jews, but the jewishness you claim to hate is actually just capitalism!!”, and does so by leaning hard into the antisemitic tropes of his presumed audience, and really like nobody needs to read that in 2023

@coriander read uh, the first part of “On the Jewish Question”

but not the second part, don't go there

@coriander according to an interpretation of early marx, socialism is just when we prioritize social man over egotistical man

of course, in the next breath marx clarifies that the hallmark of egotistical man is private property

@coriander it's less accurate in a literal sense but if you want to pick up on all the ways the author of beowulf is Doing Something With Words there's no way you're going to get that from a literal translation, especially not one in like, victorian prose; you're not going to pick up on the difference between victorian phrasing A and victorian phrasing B

and like beowulf was written as entertainment for bards to yell at people yk? it's supposed to be fun

@coriander genuinely when the prose is something you grok intuitively it's way easier to pick up on language choices which otherwise might go over your head

and like, it's a translation of beowulf, of course all of those are intentional

@coriander i did a thread of some of my favourite quotes from it a while back here: https://donphan.social/@Leaf/105936600820763214

@coriander yeah i love the headley translation tbh