[lbo-talk] The zen of marx (was clarification)

[Carrol Cox]

Gold was more important in pre-capitalist social orders than in
capitalism. Doesn't Marx somewhere discuss the difference between
pre-capitalist hoarding andcapitalist accumulation?

Carrol

Joanna wrote:
> 
> Lakhsmi wrote
> 
> "I am not sure what Marx or you are saying. But from my surrealist social
> justice perspective  I consider it rather astonishing that a natural
> substance mined in horrendous conditions by degraded and abused workers
> actually ascended to the heavens of the marketplace to become the God with
> which everything else had to request humbly an exchange. So I would
> juxtapose this image with this verse to show absurdity of bourgeois life,
> the voracious exploitation of those who brought to the market a thing of
> infinite power, the sacrifice of life and the enthroning of a thing.
> 
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3526/4079402424_4c3d5a2c37.jpg"
> 
> Funny thing, but on Marx's essay about money, it's Timon he winds up quoting.
> 
> http://marx.eserver.org/1844-ep.manuscripts/3rd.manuscript/4-money.txt
> 
> J.
> 
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