A Small Post on the Development of Marx's Usage of Writing Tropes

Y'know it's cool how Marx's writing actually changed between the 1840s and the 1860s-70s. Between the 40s and 60s, Marx became more experienced in politics. He co-founded an International Association, became an advocate for Irish liberation, etc. That's really reflected in his writings. In the Manifesto, for example, when he describes the genesis of industrial capitalism and colonialism, he frames it in kind of a progressive lens. He acts like it was a necessary evil for the creation of capitalism. In Capital, however, he's a lot more critical, almost satirical and mocking. Like he was getting angrier and angrier the more he wrote. He uses examples of the British East India Company fabricating famines, slavers assassinating mayors to avoid paying them for their slaves, slave prisons in South America.

I'm tempted to call Marx a satirical author because much of his work uses some pretty intense satire. Like, the end of the chapter on labor in Capital, he very sarcastically makes fun of the idea that that wage labor is a voluntary association, as if he's speaking through gritted teeth. The entirety of the German Ideology and The Critique of Critical Critique is a satirical poke at the Young Hegelians of his time.

You can also make connections between later Marx and the Gothic authors of his time. He uses a lot of Gothic imagery and tropes in his dialectical sketches of capitalism. David Harvey brings up Marx's interest in Gothic literature, named Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" as an example.

This is just a small post on Marx's usage of writing tropes. Expect theory stuff............ maybe someday.