[lbo-talk] Open letters from Stefano Kourkoulakos and LeoPanitch

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 6 05:07:42 PDT 2010


On Nov 5, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Shane Mage wrote:


>> How is it to be measured?
> in hours

I just don't buy that. It's all ultimately about money:


> Money is therefore not only an object, but is the object of greed. It is essentially auri sacra fames. Greed as such, as a particular form of the drive, i.e. as distinct from the craving for a particular kind of wealth, e.g. for clothes, weapons, jewels, women, wine etc., is possible only when general wealth, wealth as such, has become individualized in a particular thing, i.e. as soon as money is posited in its third quality. Money is therefore not ony the object but also the fountainhead of greed.... Hedonism in the abstract presupposes an object which possesses all pleasures in potentiality.



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