This does not say anything about bartering being dominant. In fact it indicates that monetary systems were dominant. If soldiers were paid in salt...
This is not a scientific analysis of economic or social systems, you'd get laughed at by any sociologist worth his salt. Fascism is a nominally...
The first paragraph of the economy section on Mesopotamia's Wikipedia page says "Irrigated agriculture spread southwards from the Zagros foothills...
I think most of us would appreciate it if you turned down the show-off notch a bit. We don't care about your personal achievements and an internet...
Primitive nomadic people practice communism because the direct producers are in control of both the means of production (nature in this case) and...
Barter has never existed as a dominant system. I'll bet you can't name one place, or even one city, which at any point in human history primarily...
This is not such a good argument. So much of social services are provided by 'private' charities.
Not 'needs' to be, it will necessarily be or it will fail. Otherwise the social system will collapse or experience upheaval.
The idea of a small government is nonsensical. The only purpose of a government is to preserve a given social and economic system. Some day soon...
What's the problem as long as you know where the money is going? I see how people can argue that for America, but in Europe service workers are...
Man, those figures are insane. I feel disgusted just reading them, it's so extreme. And according the right wingers union workers are supposedly...
Obviously people have different levels of physical fatness and mobility, not to mention different mental abilities. But it does not follow that...
Please be careful where you tip, some bastard bosses have been known to take tips and use the money from your tips as part of the of the...
You're right, terrorists can come from any religion. But the problem is not religious teachings, it is the us and them attitude. That terrorist...
Property law only grew out of the feudal lord's needs to organize systematic expropriation of the surplus crop from peasants, and to normalize...
Sarah Palin trolls everyone whenever she has a press conference. All it takes is her vacant but 'bubbly' look to infuriate people, myself included.
It is, but people use it as a cover for all things 'Arab'. When a right winger says that 'Muslims' are invading their country, in their head it...
Modern concepts of ownership are legal fiction, completely at odds with man's natural desires. I am aware that legally a business owner own a...
Firstly, I want to steal nothing. I just won't be upset when the people no longer have to face the force of the state in satisfying their natural...
In feudalism property was mainly owned by direct producers. Eventually some peasants were forced into serfdom to 'work' for the estates. The lords...
What other system featured privat ownership of the means of production?
For one, Muslim is a synonym for arab.
The history of capitalism is still young and it's already clearly dysfunctional. Capitalim has a short history compared to feudalism, and it's a...
People have a right to ownership over things they use. A businessman has no more right to your workplace than he does to your house.
The surplus is what enabled the stratification, thus stratification did not exist in pre feudal (hunter gatherer) society. The nobility could not...
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