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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 18:34:27 +0100
From: Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms-AT-kabelfoon.nl>
Subject: Re: Ed Rocket on Capitalism




see Jean Baudrillard: 'Pour une critique de i'economie politique du 
signe'; Gallimard 1972

Nathan Goralnik wrote:

> 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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Nathan Goralnik wrote:
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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