[P2P-F] introducing radical anthropology, a blog series

[Michel Bauwens]

as usual, but I will refrain, so many things that could lead to useful
documentation!!

for example,

* There is some interesting material on network based nations and
their ports of call.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:15 PM, <ideasinc at ee.net> wrote:

> provocative certainly, the Patriarchal Counter Revolution seems to be a
> bit conflating. I would expect that shifts in domains and dominance shift
> also in the historical flow of time and space.
>
> The place of origin of currency by tokens based on fixed value was a major
> democratizing event. The earliest preserved use of coins was was by Lydia
> in the Mediterranean terminus of the Silk Road. The dominant basis in the
> region for exchange was an oligarchic gift/tribute economy. The
> democratization of the Athenean/Attic economy in particular by way of
> Solon's counsel allowed the agora to develop as an open space/a'la
> commons. There is some interesting material on network based nations and
> their ports of call. The democratization of the currency and economy
> allowed small scale merchants to sustain as well. This also includes the
> establishment of brothels, which has an ambiguous role in reducing the
> oligarchy.
>
> Understand here that the anthropology of someone like David Graeber is
> mostly focused upon the origins of the recording of debts is in also in
> the sphere of MMT to the extent that he focuses upon the recording of
> debts as in by units and monetary equivalents. It is the in payment of
> taxation that sovereign currency can act. The wealth of Croesus was
> possible only through the city state of Lydia being able and willing to
> protect and regulate economic life there in the then current hub of the
> western parts of Eurasia. Cyrus the Great and the legacy of the Persian
> Empire was that they were a pluralistic society in most ways.
>
> The participation of the Navy of Samos, Phoenicians, and others in the
> retributive invasion of Attic Greece by Darius, as retold by Herodotus,
> tells me that the targeted Greeks were the oligarchical gift economy
> loyalists who considered merchants to be thieves. The Ionian revolt which
> led to the Persian attack upon Attic/Mycenaean Greece resulted from their
> supplying weapons and support to various city states in Anatolia/Asia
> Minor in resistance to the Persian Empire.
>
> The details of the culture is open to all sort of speculations as a
> Lysistrata model of change as much as a culture organized on a hunting and
> gathering economy might substantiate. It would seem that in a tribal
> perspective that each and every participant of the community has a place
> in the process. That Hera/Juno declares a domain as does Dionysus and
> Janus seems productive, though less assertive.
>
> thanks for the link,
>
> Tadit
>
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