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[Paul Mackin]

On 6/3/2012 5:01 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Dally acting The Spirit of Bimetallism....
> "What had they been like as girls, Supply, Demand, Surplus Value,
> Diminishing
> Returns?"...."how she'd come to be a child of gold and silver?"
> TRP brings in Marxist-like terms to describe Dally thinking about her
> eclectic hard-scrabbling
> life .....without 'slow, wood rhythms'.............

Having an allegorical sculpture "Surplus Value" in a "capitalist temple" 
is kind of whack.  The other figures personify classical and 
neoclassical economic concepts, not specifically Marxist, though Marx 
made use of them too, (most notably the law of diminishing returns)

P