From: Riccardo Bellofiore (riccardo.bellofiore@UNIBG.IT)
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 04:19:17 EDT
At 7:44 -0400 24-10-2005, Jerry Levy wrote: >PS: Marx referred (metaphorically, of course) to constant capital >as "dead labor." Yet, if we are to take the vampire metaphor >literally, he should have referred to it as UNDEAD labor. Another >case of mixed metaphors, I guess. Dear Jerry, my paper is the same as in mexico, may be Katrina was influenced by it. And your mail is funny and clever as usual, but ... I don't understand the PS. If capital is dead labour sucking living labour to grow as more dead labour, where's the problem in the analogy with vampires? 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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