Graeber - Debt
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| - | * "As the great classicist Moses FInley | + | * "As the great classicist Moses Finley oftn liked to say, in the ancient world, all revolutionary movements had a single program: 'Cancel the debts and redistribute the land.'" (p. 8) |
| + | * "the crucial factor (...) is money's capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic - and by doing so,to justify things that would otherwise seem outrageous or obscene." (p 14) | ||
| + | * "Some of it is just the nature of the evidence: coins ar preserved in the archeological record; credit arrangements usually are not." (p. 22) | ||
| + | * "It just means that it's (barter, Anm.) almost never employed, as Smith imagined, between fellow villagers. Ordinarily, it takes place between strangers, even enemies." (p. 29) | ||
| + | * "Credit Theorists insisted that money is not a commodity but an accounting tool. (...) You can no more touch a dollar or a deutschmark than you can touch an hour or a cubic centimeter." (p. 46) | ||
| + | * pp. 52 ff.: retelling the story behind "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" | ||
| + | * "The core argument is that any attempt to separate monetary policy from social policy is ultimately wrong. Primordial-debt theorists insist that these have always been the same thing. Governements use taxes to create money, and they are able to do so because they have become the guardians of the debt that all citizens have to one another. This debt is the essense of society itself." (p. 56); later, on p. 71: "what we really have, in the idea of primordial debt, is the ultimate nationalist myth." | ||
| + | * "Faced with the potential for complete social breakdown, Sumerian and later Babylonian kings periodically announced general amnesties: 'clean slates,' as economic historian Michael Hudson refers to them. Such decrees would typically declare all outstanding consumer debt null and void (commercial debts were not affected), return all land to its original owners, and allow all debt-peons to return to their families. (...) In Sumeria, these were called 'declarations of freedom'" (p. 65) | ||
| + | * "What makes debt different is that it is premised on an assumption of equality." (p. 86) | ||
| + | * "Through most of history, when overt political conflict between classes did appear, it took the form of pleas for debt cancellation" (p. 87) | ||
| + | * Definition of debt (p. 120, Herv. i. Orig.): "Debt is a very specific thing, and it arises from very specific situations. It first requires a relationship between two people who do not consider each other fundamentally different sorts of being, who are at least potential equals, who ''are'' equals in those ways that are really important, and who are not currently in a state of equality - but for whom there is some way to set matters straight." | ||
| + | * "Procreative sex was considered natural (after all, animals did it). Non-procreative sex, sex for pleasure, was divine." (p. 181) | ||
| + | * "States seem to have played a complex dual role, simultaneously fostering commoditization and intervening to ameliorate its effects: enforcing the laws of debt and rights of fathers, and offering periodic amnesties." (p. 185) | ||
| + | * "the king and slave are mirror images, in that unlike normal human beings who are defined by their commitments to others, they are defined ''only'' by relations of power." (p. 209, Herv. i. Orig.) | ||
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Teilweise sehr beeindruckende Darstellung zu Beginn des Buches, viele lesenswerte Beispiele und Anekdoten. Leider wenig überzeugende Analyse der Jetzt-Zeit auf den letzten 60 Seiten des Buches. Eine ausgezeichnete Rezension des Buchs hat Till von Treeck verfasst.
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- "As the great classicist Moses Finley oftn liked to say, in the ancient world, all revolutionary movements had a single program: 'Cancel the debts and redistribute the land.'" (p. 8)
- "the crucial factor (...) is money's capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic - and by doing so,to justify things that would otherwise seem outrageous or obscene." (p 14)
- "Some of it is just the nature of the evidence: coins ar preserved in the archeological record; credit arrangements usually are not." (p. 22)
- "It just means that it's (barter, Anm.) almost never employed, as Smith imagined, between fellow villagers. Ordinarily, it takes place between strangers, even enemies." (p. 29)
- "Credit Theorists insisted that money is not a commodity but an accounting tool. (...) You can no more touch a dollar or a deutschmark than you can touch an hour or a cubic centimeter." (p. 46)
- pp. 52 ff.: retelling the story behind "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
- "The core argument is that any attempt to separate monetary policy from social policy is ultimately wrong. Primordial-debt theorists insist that these have always been the same thing. Governements use taxes to create money, and they are able to do so because they have become the guardians of the debt that all citizens have to one another. This debt is the essense of society itself." (p. 56); later, on p. 71: "what we really have, in the idea of primordial debt, is the ultimate nationalist myth."
- "Faced with the potential for complete social breakdown, Sumerian and later Babylonian kings periodically announced general amnesties: 'clean slates,' as economic historian Michael Hudson refers to them. Such decrees would typically declare all outstanding consumer debt null and void (commercial debts were not affected), return all land to its original owners, and allow all debt-peons to return to their families. (...) In Sumeria, these were called 'declarations of freedom'" (p. 65)
- "What makes debt different is that it is premised on an assumption of equality." (p. 86)
- "Through most of history, when overt political conflict between classes did appear, it took the form of pleas for debt cancellation" (p. 87)
- Definition of debt (p. 120, Herv. i. Orig.): "Debt is a very specific thing, and it arises from very specific situations. It first requires a relationship between two people who do not consider each other fundamentally different sorts of being, who are at least potential equals, who are equals in those ways that are really important, and who are not currently in a state of equality - but for whom there is some way to set matters straight."
- "Procreative sex was considered natural (after all, animals did it). Non-procreative sex, sex for pleasure, was divine." (p. 181)
- "States seem to have played a complex dual role, simultaneously fostering commoditization and intervening to ameliorate its effects: enforcing the laws of debt and rights of fathers, and offering periodic amnesties." (p. 185)
- "the king and slave are mirror images, in that unlike normal human beings who are defined by their commitments to others, they are defined only by relations of power." (p. 209, Herv. i. Orig.)
