I Think We Need To Think Of

One Of The Fairly Interesting Things About Money Is That It Makes Certain Things Possible That Wouldn't Be Possible Otherwise - It Doesn't Make Them Inevitable. Hence The Strange Blindness Of Economists To What Would Actually Happen When One Does Exchange Things If There Isn't Money In Such Contexts.

Now, We're Used To Thinking Of Communism As Being Once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, Maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And People Agree That There Is A Sort Of Epic Narrative Going On Here. I Think We Should Just Throw This Narrative Out, It's Irrelevant Anyway, And Who Cares Who Owns Things? I Don't. You Know, We All Own The White House. So What? I Still Can't Go In, Right?

Revolutionary Constituencies Always Involve A Tacit Alliance Between The Least Alienated And The Most Oppressed.

What Is Debt Anyway? A Debt Is Just The Perversion Of A Promise. It Is A Promise Corrupted By Both Math And Violence.

It Affects Every Aspect Of Our Lives, Is Often Said To Be The Root Of All Evil, And The Analysis Of The World That It Makes Possible - What We Call 'the Economy' - Is So Important To Us That Economists Have Become The High Priests Of Our Society. Yet, Oddly, There Is Absolutely No Consensus Among Economists About What Money Really Is.