Christopher Hitchens, discussing the recent interest in Marx in next month's Atlantic, writes:

Incidentally, and as Václav Havel, following Heidegger, once pointed out in an address to a joint session of Congress, this makes a strong case for “consciousness” having a say in the determination of “social being.”

Which I don't grok. The article links to Havel and Heidegger's Wikipedia entries instead of Havel's address, or the Heidegger text Havel was following (What's the neologism for a useless hyperlink?). Consciousness isn't something Heidegger wrote about, and especially not class consciousness a la Marx.  ¶ 1:26 PM