From: Riccardo Bellofiore (riccardo.bellofiore@UNIBG.IT)
Date: Tue Oct 04 2005 - 13:54:33 EDT
At 13:39 -0400 4-10-2005, Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM wrote: > > No, Jerry, I think Marx believed in ghosts, and especially vampires. > >Riccardo: > >Well, I don't believe in ghosts or vampires, do you? in Capital as a vampire? definitely, yes > > > Definitely these are NOT metaphors. > >Perhaps it would be better to say that they are *literary allusions*? no, they descends necessarily from what the commodity is. > > > It is what is materially going on in this very special social reality. > >These references should be interpreted as "ghost-like" or "vampire-like." > >We should not interpret his references to ghosts, vampires, and >possession too literally. oh, ok ... but the like is "like" or not? my point is that the commodity compels Marx to speak the language of ghosts and vampires. > >Marx was entitled -- like all authors -- to some artistic and creative >liberties in his writing, wasn't he? I'm certainly happy that his writing >style was far more *expressive* than that of, say, Ricardo or Sraffa. > No, I think that the style and the language, for Marx as well as for Keynes, were intrinsic to his method and content. No "mere appearance". It is necessary form. riccardo -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Hyman P. Minsky" Università di Bergamo Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it direct +39-035-2052545 secretary +39-035 2052501 fax: +39 035 2052549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/pers/?riccardo.bellofiore
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