> So, among the points in the more extended quote, the main use of money
> is social control, and this is achieved by keeping its quantities
> limited to some mystical level where basic social reproduction can
> take place under a domineering austerity (thanks Allan you
> asshole).
Not quite -- the main use of money is exchange, this isn't necessarily tied to social control or domination as such. Issue lots of money to the broad masses and you'd get a consumption boom, not a bad thing in itself, but certainly not a revolution. Capitalism is about turning money -- the vehicle of exchange -- into credit -- the vehicle of accumulation, resulting in ceaseless dynamism, speculations, the creation of new goods and needs, and spectacular crashes and human misery, too. Much more complicated than the merely symbolic.
-- Dennis