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+  From: "Nathan Goralnik" <rhizome85@xxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 16:25:08 -0700
Ed Rocket says:

> Capitalism is the use of money for the purpose of accumulating more money.
> Money is pure exchange value, with no inherent use value. Thus there is no
> end-goal or telos in capitalism, but rather perpetual and endless
exchange.

How Saussure-ish of you. Have the Marxist structuralists elaborated a theory
of the economy as being structured like a language?

~Nate


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