Reply #52: Give me a clue where you are coming from... [View All]

there are more sects of economic religion than of theological religion.

1. What is the difference (to you) between "commodity fetishization" and "commodification"? Is one good and the other bad?

2. What is the difference (to you) between "demand" and "effective demand"?

Are you saying that any kind of "demand" is bad because all demand equals money? Are you against barter too? How do people signal their needs to each other without "demand"? (If you can't answer that, then withdraw the crack about how markets can't be emergent.) Are you also against division of labor? Does each individual have to supply all his own needs?

3. Walk me slowly through your chain of reasoning about how I have declared money to be "a valueless token"?

I haven't a clue what kind of social distribution arrangements (i.e., economies) would pass the smell test with you.

arendt