[lbo-talk] Michael Hudson - 'From Marx to Goldman Sachs: The Fictions of Fictitious Capital'

Mike Beggs mikejbeggs at gmail.com
Mon Aug 2 16:42:31 PDT 2010


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:28 AM, socialismorbarbarism <socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com> wrote:


> FWIW, I don’t think Marx’s formulation of the category of “fictitious”
> capital has proven very helpful, but that’s a whole other argument.

I actually think it's useful and interesting as long as it's used in a technical sense - paper claims to income streams. The problem is when you read a value judgement into it, or read 'fictitious' as 'fake' or 'worthless'.

I like your critique of Hudson, by the way. He was in Sydney a few months ago and had a public meeting with hundreds of people, which I was surprised by. Also he spent a day at the central bank. Where is this guy coming from?

Mike Beggs



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