Victor, thanks for the analysis of the context of the sentence quoted
by Marx. But there are two debates going on here:
(1) does money-lending lead to the creation of surplus-value or is that
simply an illusion arising from the fetishism of commodities?
Here, I believe, Steve Keen and I agree: it is the latter. Gil Skillman
disagrees with us.
(2) Can use-value be described as being quantitative in nature? Here
Steve and I disagree. I don't know what Gil thinks about this.
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim Devine BITNET: jndf@lmuacad INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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