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Re: [OPE-L] The Haunted Conference



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At 7:44 -0400 24-10-2005, Jerry Levy wrote:
PS: Marx referred (metaphorically, of course) to constant capital
as "dead labor."    Yet, if we are to take the vampire metaphor
literally, he should have referred to it as UNDEAD labor.  Another
case of mixed metaphors, I guess.

Dear Jerry,

my paper is the same as in mexico, may be Katrina was influenced by it. And your mail is funny and clever as usual, but ... I don't understand the PS. If capital is dead labour sucking living labour to grow as more dead labour, where's the problem in the analogy with vampires?

riccardo
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