Jayson Funke wrote: > > Thanks to those who replied. It was helpful. > > I think that what I am driving towards (in some long and about way) is > Marx's fetishism of commodities.
In which case you might try reading II Rubin, Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, with an Introduction by Frdy Perlman. Carrol P.S. The origin of money (or some sort of universal product) was in international trade. Money is needed _precisely_ when the 'trading' parties don't share anything.
