File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2000/foucault.0012, message 41


From: "Nathan Goralnik" <rhizome85-AT-home.com>
Subject: Re: Ed Rocket on Capitalism
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 16:25:08 -0700


Ed Rocket says:

> Capitalism is the use of money for the purpose of accumulating more money.
> Money is pure exchange value, with no inherent use value. Thus there is no
> end-goal or telos in capitalism, but rather perpetual and endless
exchange.

How Saussure-ish of you. Have the Marxist structuralists elaborated a theory
of the economy as being structured like a language?

~Nate


   

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