Charles Brown wrote: > > Commodities and number lines, arithematic. > > CB >
Charles, look up some good sources on "Palace Economies." It is misleading to speak of commodities in reference to such economies (and they characterized the mideast at the time cuneiform was developed). Writing was mainly used to keep accounts of tribute to the Palace. M.I. Finley's works on ancient Greek economy have some of this material. I don't know who the best mideastern historians are. Carrol ^^^^^ And what class was the "Palace" guard protecting ? Yes I know you don't know who the best mideastern historians are. Try Professor Henry Wright, whom I had classes with at the University of Michigan in archaeology, and his studies on the origin of the state in the Tigris Euphrates. Carrol, read Engels and Marx, and modern archaelogical studies on this. Commodity exchange arises thousands of years before capitalism. Marx famously says commodity exchange first arose on the periphery of societies in which the main mode of production was not commodity production. Engels discusses this at length in several places. There was commodity exchange in Mesopotamia at the time I am referring to, the time of origin of writing. And writing, as the wikipedia item correctly points out, originated in this commodity production. Charles
