how fundamental is money to capitalism?
   does creating a money-less world solve many or most of the problems
   if so, what are the best ways to combat money as a phenomenon?
   Should Anarchists be publicizing the 2012 Strike for a Moneyless World?
   If you agree that the abolition of money would be a fine solution to
   the signal for all who support the abolition of money to stop work and
   WE WANT A MONEYLESS WORLD
   "money" and "value (exchange)"?  doing away with money per se, while i
   money (a medium of exchange).  how tightly those are interwoven and
   with the thing (money), to see how that impacts the way of thinking.
   likewise, doing away with money as a medium of exchange would not
   i tend to agree with this assessment (that money is more of a symptom
   do without money one way (certainly not the only way) to do that?
   Money is absolutely fundamental to capitalism. The establishment of
   money is one of many roles that the state has played historically in
   to facilitate commercial transactions (i.e. money). All such
   money, and all have been imposed by the state, usually as a method of
   not exist before money, and money did not exist before the state. If
   money somehow disappeared, market exchange could not be conducted in a
   This is not to say that the abolition of money = anarchy and freedom. I
   money is truly essential because it's a method of artificial scarcity
   Money is not fundamental to capitalism.  Capitalism could exist just
   fine without money.  Money (according to Marx) is a commodity just like
   still be eaten, shoes could still be worn etc.)  Money on the other
   exchange.  Money does not have a stable exchange value because it is
   When you go through a process of exchange to get money, money is not
   actually the thing that you want, but rather, you see money as it's
   To 'abolish money' would make capitalism slower and more cumbersome.
   There are places in the world where money is not the most efficient
   commodity at lubricating exchange.  In a sense money "losses" its
   use-value.  In places where the exchange value of money tends to go
   'new money' even though it has an alternate use value and was not
   designed for this purpose.  (Brick is a common 'new money')(I wish this
   the task of money.
   A better known and more humorous story about money is when money gains
   additional use-values.  There have been times and places where money
   about pre-WWII Germany where it took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy
   their gigantic stacks of useless money such as, wall paper, kindiling,
   The main critics I can see of 'Money' are the Zeitgeist Movement
   To answer your second question, no.  Abolishing money does nothing to
   For more on Money and Commodities read: Capital by Karl Marx
   Well put. Your understanding of money is obvious.
   Money had an actual value at one time when precious metals were used.
   Paper as money had the same ability, but had obvious advantages and a
   Money is now just a conditioned concept of value in our minds.  In
   Many might see that digital money works more effectively in a digital
   But maybe the best part about the current state of money is that it
   such a way that does not cause a panic but the realization that money
   If people were able to see the adsurdity of money and the a different
   things and being responsible is not about the cost of money but the
   Money is not a phenomenon. It is a technology that is used primarily to
   money-less world would be tragic for human beings. It will never happen
   Money is primarily a means of facilitating an arbitrary trust between
   of money seems like a fine rebuttal to me.
   I am not inconsistent.  Money is simply an item valued for its use in
   competing currencies. When you exchange food for money ( which could be
   the essence of money and is consistent with a free society. It improves
   justifiability of money and markets.
   The issue of "money" however is far less black and white than many make
   All this talk about money with no mention of interest (and only one of
   debt) surprises me. These are the two primary characteristics of money
   I have so many thoughts on money that it's hard to know where to start,
   but I see the concept of money as it stands today as the most important
   anarchist, I see transforming the conception of money in my own life as
   phenomenon of money and what the effects have been, but I at least
   Could proving money distorts reality and twists the value of human