On 6/30/07, boddi satva <lbo.boddi at gmail.com> wrote:
> But the fixation is based on the fantasy that one can escape the
> bounds of one's society. It's a "when I win the lottery" mentality. If
> I have my little pile of gold I can tell everybody to fuck off.
>
> But money itself, as a means of communication, evolves over time.
> Surely you're not suggesting that the rattling and stacking of gold
> coins is the same exercise as modern finance?
>
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> On 6/30/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > More from the Grundrisse, p. 232: "But when one considers the anxiety
> > involved in the doctrine of money in particular, and the feverish
> > fear with which, in practice, the inflow and outflow of gold and
> > silver are watched in times of crisis, then it is evident that the
> > aspect of money which the followers of the Monetary and Mercantilist
> > System conceived in an artless one-sidedness is still to be taken
> > seriously, not only in the mind, but as a real economic category."
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