[lbo-talk] Political Action &/or Revolution was State and Capitalism

[John Thornton]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> MONEY
>
> I don't see how anyone can very intelligently or usefully say anything
> about Money without grounding her/his discussion in Marx, finding there
> that Money is a social relation under specific historical conditions
> (Capitalism). Money (as Marx discusses it) did not exist before
> capitalism and cannot exist after capitalism. Just as it proved
> impossible, on this e-list, to discuss unpjroductive labor, it is
> impossible, on this e-list, to discuss money usefully. 

Money existed before capitalism. The current social relation we have to 
money is specific to capitalism.
That is why one need not dispense with money but rather the specific 
capitalist social relation to money.
Money isn't the problem or even a problem.

John Thornton