Re: [OPE-L] The Haunted Conference

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
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