Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/668

Actor’s say of an emotional tantrum: What a production! They’re right. To bring Marx up to date one must add the total of non-commodity productions to have a sensitive “ear” for the new movements of history. And to this one must add multiple time. Which means that a “system” of thought which attempts to take into account “movements” all over the world is doomed to impotence because its extrapolation of the future is an extrapolation from the past without ever considering the clock-present which contains the unconscious future.