historycircus

I have gone back through this thread to re-read some of the posts, to glean something new from the old. Your statement, Matrix, stood out. I keep emphasizing "Pre-Capitalist/exchange" economics, because it is a system that Capitalism ran roughshod over from the late eighteenth century onward. Exchange economics is what tribal societies of the past practiced, and what tribal societies today practice (the few that are left, and none are immune to the effects of "articulation," the process by which market forces erode exchange economies). For Native Americans in North America, it was the fur trade that led to articulation, a process that was quickly followed by gun-point diplomacy by the Canadian and United States governments.

My point is that exchange economies were consciously crushed by the historic PTB BECAUSE it ran counter to exploitative market Capitalism. Could we build community models based on this earlier economic model?