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Re: From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?
- Subject: Re: From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?
- From: jnn at synfin.org (John Newman)
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 13:51:00 -0400
- In-reply-to: <CAN9H=iL5VpbTJnDdANCEGjhqXp4oPVdYLWsdMpYdPo7MQw-a8A@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Aug 6, 2017, at 8:15 AM, Jason McVetta <jason.mcvetta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 6, 2017 18:00, "Zenaan Harkness" <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
>
> This might sound exceptionally unusual to those who have not
> experienced this absud and strange type of human behaviour, but this
> "ledger keeping" or "documentation of barter" simply does NOT happen
> - not even in "modern 2017 Australia".
>
>
> Who cares if some city-dwelling accountant type is not aware of such
> basic rural human realities?
>
> Not all known actually-existing societies have been based on accountancy - which is nearly, but not quite, the same thing as being based on the State.
>
> Pierre Clastres gives a fascinating description of non-state societies among "primitive" (pre-urbanization) peoples in The Archaeology of Violence. Available free at https://muse.jhu.edu/book/21784
That link is no good, not the Clastres (nor free)
You can get a rather poor quality scan at:
https://monoskop.org/File:Clastres_Pierre_Archeology_of_Violence.pdf
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