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2023-05-12 19:24 UTC
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@RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social 2023-05-12 19:25
The result of all this has been to force us into a "market society". @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social on the imposition of markets and the demolition of society: https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110182089285428195 @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social on why money is so insidiously pervasive in virtually every aspect of life: https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/113854777439943148 One of the foundational falsehoods underlying capitalist ideology is the claim that money emerged at the grass-roots level as a natural and inevitable progression from supposedly pre-existing "barter economies"; a clever hack that benefited everyone. Anthropologists and archaeologists know this is not true, but orthodox economics and other conventional institutions still promote this myth routinely. Here is a recent study further debunking this pervasive indoctrination: Ancient tally sticks across three civilizations challenge myths about money https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ancient-tally-civilizations-myths-money.html See also chapter 2 "The Myth of Barter" from David Graeber's essential book "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" https://we.riseup.net/assets/393727/David+Graeber+Debt+The+First+5+000+Years.pdf It is true that various forms of Indigenous currency arose independently in many places around the world, but those systems were fundamentally different from money as we know it today. Here is an informative article about that: Indigenous Currency Systems: From Wampum Belts to Trade Valuations https://archive.ph/wMhyt 15/30