Conclusion

David Levine

Chapter 6 in Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit: An Essay on Greed, Hope, and Loss, 2013, pp 88-94 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For freedom or creativity in living, it is not sufficient to have the means of production capable of producing and reproducing the things needed to sustain an already well-defined way of life; it is necessary to have the potential to live a life not yet determined. In other words, there must be a source of revenue capable of supporting varied and changing ways of life. Capital is this source when it is owned not as an end in itself, but as the potential to become something yet to be determined. When this is the case, capital is not desire’s object, but the way we secure that object, and the presence of capital does not imply dominance of greed.

Keywords: True Object; Revenue Stream; Peculiar Quality; Group Reason; Individual Greed (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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