So, Marx opens this section showing how he in the previous chapters has proceeded entirely from the premises of the political economists of his time like David Smith, Adam Ricardo, etc.

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An interesting article about the growing solitude in american society. It is ultimately quite limited by its liberal framing and fails to address the economic and structural issues in capitalist society which are causing this. However, it is useful for its data and descriptions of life in america this decade.

Nonetheless, many people keep choosing to spend free time alone, in their home, away from other people. Perhaps, one might think, they are making the right choice; after all, they must know themselves best. But a consistent finding of modern psychology is that people often don’t know what they want, or what will make them happy.

A profoundly useless and idealist statement. Hopefully at some point I have time to write a marxist analysys on "Solitude and Alienation" as it applies in the american context.