The Arcades Project - Operi

From Der Bazar, illustrated ladies' magazine published in Berlin (1857-) : pearl
embroidery for boxes of Communion wafers or gambling chips, men's shoes,
glove box, small bolster, penwipers, needlecase, pincushion, slippers. ChTistmas
items: lamp stands, game bags, bell pulls, firescreens, folder for musical scores,
basket for knives, canister for wax tapers, pudding cloths, gambling chips.
TI,e type of ti,e flaneur gains in distinctness when one thinks, for a moment, of
the good conscience that must have belonged to the type of Saint-Simon's "industrial;'
who bore this title only as possessor of capital.
Notable difference between Saint-Simon and Marx. 111C former conceives the class of
exploited (the producers) as broadly as possible, reckoning among them even the entrepreneur
because he pays interest to his creditors. Marx, on the other hand, includes all
those who in any way exploit another-even though they themselves may be victims of
exploitation-among the bourgeoisie.
Exacerbation of class divisions: the social order as a ladder along which the
distance from nmg to rung grows greater by the year. Infinite nmnber of gradations
between wealth and poverty in the France of ti,e previous century.
Byzantine mysticism at the Ecole Poly technique. See Pinet, "Ecole poly technique et les
Saint-Simoniens," Revue de Paris (1894).
Didn't Marx teach that the bourgeoisie, as class, can never arrive at a perfectly clear
awareness of itself? And if this is the case, isn't one justified in annexing to Marx's thesis
the idea of the dream collective (that is, the bourgeois collective)?
vVouldn't it be possible, furthermore, to show how the whole set of issues with which this
project is concerned is illuminated in the process of the proletariat's becoming conscious
of itself?
The first tremors of awakening serve to deepen sleep-(tremors
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of awakening),