RE: [OPE] Francis Wheen, "Kapital crimes"

[GERALD LEVY <gerald_a_levy@xxxxxxx>]

I am putting Wheen's emphasis (using *s, instead of italics) back in
his article. / In solidarity, Jerry


> But there
> was a purpose in his perversity. Look at his choice of verbs in the very
> first sentence: "The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode
> of production prevails appears as an 'immense collection of commodities';
> the individual commodity *appears as* its elementary form." (My
> italics.)
>
>
> We are entering a world of apparitions, of
> delusion and hallucinatory topsy-turvydom, in which inanimate objects -
> commodities, whether an iPod or a fashionable handbag - acquire tremendous
> life and vigour, while the toiling humans who produce them are reduced to
> the status of inanimate machines. They are menaced by their own creation,
> like Frankenstein and his monster, as Marx reminds us.

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