°Fistful of dollars
Following on from recent posts, and to grasp something of the particularity of Virno’s concept of the ‘frontier’, and perhaps also the Spaghetti Western, re-reading Althusser’s “The Only Materialist Tradition, Part I: Spinoza”, from Montag and Stolze (eds), The New Spinoza. An extract:
I came to Machiavelli by means of a word, ceaselessly repeated, of Marx’s, saying that capitalism was born from the “encounter between the man with money and free laborers,” free, that is, stripped of everything, of their means of labor, of their abodes and their families, in the great appropriation of the English countrysides (this was his preferred example). Encounter: Again a ‘casus,’ a ‘case,’ a factual accident without origin, cause or end.
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