[Sleeping in EQ]

Originally Posted by tooblue

Is not my middle class wealth remarkable relative to the middle class wealth of a South American citizen? Certainly I am worth more, own more, have access to more via my buying power; yet he/she relative to his/her ecomomy is worth as much, owns as much and has access to as much via his/her buying power ... in otherwords we both have access to what we need, yet one of us may be more easily convinced that more of our wants are in fact additional needs?

What you've written here is non-sequitur. For Marx, both you and the person in South America are suffering from alienation and false consciousness. Comparing wealth the way you do here seems very bourgeois.