Rustle in the Bush

So it begins… I wanted to just start of with the Grundisse because I’d heard it was important to the body of work as a hinge between the works of his earlier and older thought. Nietzsche serving as my main inspiration, I likened this piece to the Gay Science, and I find in it much to support the analogy in so far as it represents a step towards maturity in the writings. Literally. Both wrote and compiled these 2 texts around the age of 39. They are a relighting of the fire of youth. In this text Nietzsche uses the opportunity to step away from “Philosophy Proper” i.e. State Philosophy and transitions to a more dynamic kind of philosophy, a “Gay Science”. This goes without saying; read the books ( I have only read 1/4 of this book). It is in this ‘sense’ (And as we use sense father and further on keep Deleuze’s distinction between good/common sense) that Marx steps away from his more gerneralized attacks of German Idealism/State structures and moves to a broader critique of political economy as a whole; beginning to shed the moralizations of Socialism. He recognizes the “Sense of Science”. However, before commenting on the texts I read I first wish to postulate the idea the Marx does not realize ‘Gayness’ to its fullest potential.( See Twilight of the Idols, ‘Things the Germans Lack’ Section 3 ). My ‘thesis’ is that Marx dies a German. ( A conflict due in part to Nietzsche’s elitism and Marx’s importance of the proletariat? We shall see…)

Let us find out just how true this becomes.