Another really interesting episode of #ACFM so I'm gonna share some #ACFMquotes well, more like paraphrases, this is from 1:04:15 https://novaramedia.com/2022/12/18/acfm-trip-30-gifts/
"[Marcel] Mauss is trying to undo some of the origin myths of classical economics, so the origin myth is that, you have individuals, they produce stuff, they produce too much stuff, too much of something, but they don't produce everything so they will go and barter, say one chicken for some milk, but you don't need that much milk, so in the end money is created to solve that inconvenience and then everything else emerges from that, banks, credit default swaps, derivatives all emerge from this, addressing this problem of barter. And what #anthropologists can do is say, well, there isn't any evidence that societies based on barter have ever really existed and when you look around you see relationships based on gifting and social obligations of gifting do seem to be everywhere, and those are not relationships between individuals but relationships between groups of people....so you have to look else where to find where money emerges from and the understanding is money emerges from the need to pay taxes, so from states" #NovaraMedia

#ACFMquotes "the function of ideology is that people don't know history, because if they did, they would realise that social relations are contingent and can be changed" this what Marx :marx: was saying in the Mid 19C, but this idea is nothing new; Gramsci has talked about this before that, if you look back at classic times the role of ideology was to convince people that the Athenian city state is a universal form and has always been like that and couldn't be any different. The idea of #Historicism is curial to any kind of radicalisation, and it always was. #ACFM #novaramedia https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/acfm-trip-7-be-here-now #communism #Marxismus

#ACFMquotes "capitalists are completely dependant on workers to generate value but, they hate the fact that they are dependant on workers to create value...and so are never reconciled and the class struggle continues" #communism #acfm https://novaramedia.com/2022/05/22/trip-24-technology/

#Neoliberal Argument: #Capitalism favours efficiency though consumer choice.
Reply: "it is totally ridiculous, that for decades and decade the car industry churned out cars that were much more powerful than you were legally allowed to use in any of the countries they were selling them....so you have billions of consumer dollars waster on machines that they were never going to be able to use in the in the way they were designed to be used"
#ACFM #novaramedia #communism #ACFMquotes https://novaramedia.com/2022/05/22/trip-24-technology/