Usury
January 20, 2004
LORD Capital doing the danse macabre....Marx's depressing image of capital tempting people to dance with Death, now looks like a painting recovered among a bundle of old manuscripts. Lord Capital looks different now. Maybe he is like Dasamuka in the wayang stories: always able to transform himself with a new face, never dying. He can even disappear.
He used to be one metamorphosis of usury, money born of money. We know that this fath
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