2. EQUALITY AND ELIMINATION OF HIERARCHY
2. EQUALITY AND ELIMINATION OF HIERARCHY It is a long time since I paid attention to the following text from the first volume of Capital by Karl Marx: 'Equality and equivalence of all kinds of labour insofar as they are human labour in general, this secret of the expression of value can be deciphered only when the idea of human equality has already acquired firmness of a popular prejudice'. 1 I noticed this phrase as early as in 1981. I read then Marx in the original German and translated it as follows: 'The secret of the expression of value, equality and equivalence of all kinds of labour as and insofar as they are human labour in general can only be deciphered as soon as the notion of human equality already possesses firmness of a popular prejudice (Vorurteil)'. 2 In my opinion, my translation is better than the official one, in which the order of words has not been followed without any tangible ground, nor is there any word-for-...