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Gerald Levy wrote:
>
> In _Capital_, capitalists are
> indeed presented as humanless vulture-like personifications of capital.
> This seems to me to be an appropriate simplifying assumption -- and
> related to the assumption of rationality -- yet it is also a one-sided
> presentation.
This is one of the features I most like in Capital. He treats
capitalists as what he called, "character masks of capital."
Unfortunately, this term was not translated quite like this in the
English versions.
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail michael@ecst.csuchico.edu