Brad Wrote: Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 10:44:41 -0400
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Didn't this "tradition" begin to end with the advent of capitalism in
England in the 18th century? Each locale and nation was to produce only
what it could produce cheaper than others, due to
the unalloyed virtues of "free trade"".
"Isn't (wasn't) pre-capitalist trade in some parts of the world (e.g.,
Polynesia) conducted more as a mechanism of preserving social cohesion,
than for any mercantile reason?
Ed Said:
Actually there are two ultimately two kinds of trade. One is trade that
takes place by and for the people of a city state (since before Hammurabi)
using a peoples own legal tender as currency.
The other is trade that takes place both within a nation state inter
city-states, that is conducted using a privately created currency, (created
with an expiry date and at interest) which ultimately consumes the nations
that use that private currency. The Bad money (private) drives the Good
money (legal tender) out of circulation.
Regards
Ed G
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Ed Goertzen wrote: Previously
[snip]
> Historically, trade has been about exporting the "surplus to local needs
> goods" and importing the surpluses of other locals. The new international
> trading model is not needs driven but money driven.
[snip]
[snip]
> "The intellectual faculties however are not of themselves sufficient to
> produce external action; they require the aid of physical force, THE
> DIRECTION AND COMBINATION OF WHICH ARE WHOLLY AT THE DISPOSAL OF MONEY,
> THAT MIGHTY SPRING BY WHICH THE TOTAL FORCE OF HUMAN ENERGIES IS SET IN
> MOTION."
[snip]
The invisible hand spins the social centrifuge, dis-integrating each
individual person into "sovereign consumer" and universally oppressed producer
"siamese twin" individually unviable personae.
+\brad mccormick
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