Re: From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Mon Aug 7 10:51:00 PDT 2017



> 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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