Re: money, campaign finance

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> 03/09/00 02:05PM >>>
Hugh Rodwell wrote:

>Money is not a fiction, it's a value equivalent or a pointer to
>such an equivalent.

I'd answer this, but I'm afraid I'd get killed if I did, so I won't.

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CB: This is a good tease. Well, consider that you would only be virtually killed. I should know the answer anyway, as I have been around this debate for a while. Let me seeeeeeee.

The answer is that money IS a fiction in some sense. It is socially constructed. Uhhhhh.  Marx discusses fictictious capital, I think. Uhhhhhh ??? lets see....Could it be that money is a symbol...