What is remarkable is how far Marx purged Capital of polemics, as I said before, treating capitalists as the charactermasks of capital. Ricardo Duchesne wrote: > > Marx's point in writing Capital was to do away with rhetoric. Rather than > > pointing to the horrors of capitalism and pointing to evil acts of specific > > people or even classes, he attempted to show how the system as a whole worked > > according to its own laws of motion. > > Like any polemic work, Capital is heavily rhetorical; just like what > you say above. > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
