Gil --- Paul might have said this, but Marx certainly didn't, as any reading of Capital, Volume III, Ch. 21 will make clear. For example: "The form of lending results from capital's characteristic here of emerging as a commodity, or in other words, it results from the fact that money as capital becomes a commodity." In speaking of supply and demand for interest capital I only paraphrased Marx's analysis in the last part of that chapter. Paul ---- Marx's analysis here is inadequate, and his normal very strict logical use of terms becomes sloppy. I made a long posting on the OPE list a month or so back (24th September) using arguments from type theory to show this. You must have seen that posting so why not comment on that.