This a very good article that I found in my papers' Feuilleton on wednesday. It was written by Peter Sloterdijk in german(y), and I'll translate it part for part. It is a good linguistic exercise for me to translate newspaper articles, so if any formulations or phrasings seem off, please let me know. Part 1 Arbitrariness and gullibility were at the beginning of economic relationships - if the classics are to be believed. Rousseau wrote about this issue in his famous introduction for his ...

With this backdrop in mind, it is easy to understand why all "critical" economy after Rousseau had to take on the form of a general theory of theft. Where thiefes are in power - even if they have affected a genteel demeanour for a long time - the only possible way for developing a realistic economic science has to be the cleptocracy of the wealthy. This theory tries to explain why the rich have always been the rulers: Those who are successful during the initial theft will be on the forefront wh...

Even after Marx respectlessly declared the "Expropriation of the Expropriators" as his proclaimed objective - it had different consequences for the future and did by no means mean the compensation for an injustice that happend eons ago. Marx's critique was rather aimed at the elimination of the daily renewed plundering inherent of the capitalsystem. Allegedly, this plundering guarantees that the value of all industrial produce will allways be devided unfairly: mere subsistence for the workers, ...