[OPE-L:4104] Re: are capitalists human?

Michael Perelman (michael@ecst.csuchico.edu)
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:01:36 -0800 (PST)

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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.

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