The preface to the first volume of Capital ends with a motto about intellectual autonomy, or rather, about intellectual autonomy and the attitude toward reception that serves it best. Altering a line from Dante’s Divine Comedy, Karl Marx pledges to live by the words: “Go on your own way, and let the people talk.” He certainly managed to act in accord with the first clause, nowhere more so than in Capital itself. In this genre-transcending work, Marx aspires to the strictest conceptual rigor and documents his claims comprehensively, yet he also cracks wise, operates in a declamatory key, and gives free reign to his imaginative powers, telling readers, for example, what commodities would say if they could speak. As for letting the people talk, that proved to be a greater challenge.
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