I think Ben's last longer post is really intriguing, especially since I've been reading the Eighteenth Brumaire on the side. Some quick questions before a longer post this weekend.
* If he's telling a story, is Marx doing "serious" history, developing a typological narrative of modern exchange, which [as I think you're suggesting, Ben] lays waste to its precursors as it moves forward?
* Or is he proceeding from first principles--like Hobbes in Leviathan--and writing an implicit polemic [raising and devastating arguments without stooping to the naming of names], while mitigating his broadside by allowing it to take the structure of a story?
* Or is he after something in between linear storytelling and arborescent argumentation?
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