[lbo-talk] What are you reading now?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 11 12:41:36 PDT 2007


On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Charles Brown wrote:


> CB: Assume Marx doesn't consider fiat money a sham. Nonetheless,
> surely
> Marx's attitude toward fiat money is as critical as his attitude is
> toward the capitalist system of commodity exchange - he advocates its
> overthrow. Doesn't Marx advocate the overthrow of fiat money as
> much as
> he advocates overthrow of capitalism ? Shouldn't those following
> Marx's
> ideas have revolutionary critiques of the capitalist system of
> finance,
> just as they have revolutionary critiques of the system of commodity
> exchange ?

Yes.

Doug



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