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