[PEN-L:3116] Re: Re: Aztecs

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I always thought ( after Marx , Chapter 1, Vol. 1 of _Capital_) that
technically money only exists in commodity exchange ?
>
>There is a large anthropological literature on primary cultural gift
exchange, reciprocity, etc. as different than commodity exchange ( no
expectation of repayment, symbolically rather than accountingly constituted
etc.). <

I was thinking about the use of wampum between tribes or bands. Marx talks
about how commodity exchange starts at the borders between communities. And
if commodity exchange is happening, so is commodity production.


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