Thursday, February 17, 2005

From the Desk of Partho Ganguly

`A philosopher produces ideas, a poet poems, a clergyman sermons, a professor compendia,... A criminal produces crime... The criminal moreover produces the whole of the police and the criminal justice system, constables, judges, hangmen, juries, etc. The criminal breaks the monotony and everyday security of bourgeois life. In this way he keeps it from stagnation, and gives rise to that uneasy tension and agility without which even the spur of competition would get blunted' --- Karl Marx – Theories of Surplus Value, Part I