5/18/2023 0 Comments Blood and Money by David McNally![]() Where Adam Smith observed that monetary wealth represents “command over labor,” this paradigm shifting book amends his view to define money as comprising the command over persons and their bodies. Blood and Money demonstrates the ways that money has “internalized” its violent origins, making clear that it has become a concentrated force of social power and domination. ![]() Money’s emergence and its transformation are shown to be intimately connected to the buying and selling of slaves and the waging of war. But in this groundbreaking study, David McNally reveals the true story of money’s origins and development as one of violence and human bondage. In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. ![]() ![]() The history of money and its violent and oppressive origins from slavery to war-by the author of Global Slump. ![]()
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