'Sguaiato Giosué ...
Fermare il sole.'[88]
April, 1899.
FOOTNOTES:
[74] Socialisme et philosophie by Antonio Labriola. Paris, Giard et Brière, 1899, see pp. 207-224. Postscript to the French edition.
[75] See chap. III.
[76] Like an impenitent sinner I shall come back to this distinction, which is essential for the solid foundation of the principles of economics, and the evil effects of whose neglect are apparent in the discourses of economists.
[77] I write equivalence because Marx writes thus, and because for the present question this other is quite irrelevant: viz. whether the relation of value can be expressed in the mathematical form of a relation of equivalence. But, for my part, and I follow the hedonists in this; I deny entirely that the relation of value is a relation of equivalence. The proof of this has already been supplied by others, and there is no occasion to repeat it.
[78] See Croce Giambattista Basile e il 'Cunto de li Cunti,' Naples, 1891; Ricerche ispano-italiane, series I, last paragraph, (Atti dell' Acc. Pontan; vol. xxviii, 1898); I predicatori italiani del seicento e il gusto spagnuolo, Naples, Pierro, 1899; I trattatisti italiani del 'concettismo' e Baltasar Gracian (Atti dell' Acc. Pontan; vol. xxix, 1899).
[79] Labriola—who reproduces Marx's style very well here and there in his own—writes in his essay on 'Das Kommunistische Manifest,' 2nd Ed., p. 79. 'The Manifesto ... does not shed tears over nothing. The tears of things have already risen on their feet of themselves, like a spontaneously vengeful force.' The tears which rise on their feet may make the hair rise on the head of a man of moderate taste; but the expression, although violently imaginative, is not in seventeenth century style.