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+  From: Larry Chappell <larchap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 13:27:57 -0500
Is there an English translation of this?

reutherr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Comrades:
> "Reification" begins/emanates in a simultaneous way from a
> unified subject, right? in other words, commodities are the products of
> labour, but labour is not the product of commodities? The Homo
> Economicus argument is an intellectual impasse. Not surprising that
> someone put the (rather trendy) word "agency" next to "reification" in
> the posts... next everyone follows w/out discussion of how the two
> relate? Where does that lead us? "Reification" w/out any mention of
> discourse: a totalizing transcendance, a "biunification" of sorts, yeh?
>
> RICH X OUT

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