Subject: Re: M-TH: Sex and payment
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:04:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "hoov" <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>


> > didn't KM remark somewhere (in a comment on the bourgeoisie) about
> > being ugly but being able to buy the most beautiful woman?...Michael 
> > Hoover
> 
> In the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, remark on "The Power of Money."
> "I am lame, but money furnishes me with 24 feet . . . ."
> --jks

thanks much...passage below:

"That which exists for me through the medium of money, that which I
can pay for (i.e., which money can buy), that I am, the possessor of
the money.  My own power is as great as the power of the money.  The
properties of money are my own (the posessor's) properties and
faculties.  What I am and can do is, therefore, not at all determined
by my individuality.  I am ugly, but I can buy the most beautiful
woman for myself..."

and I'll countenance none of that Althusserian epistemological break
stuff...Michael Hoover


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