»With blood and dirt«
The discreet charm of state power: genesis and validity of property and money
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https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v50i199.1886Keywords:
Money, counterfeiters, ownership, so-called primitive accumulation, state powerAbstract
Money and property are taken for granted, always already existing. However, they are particular social forms. Money and property as we know them today express very specific social relationships. This can be shown by means of historical examples and by looking at the underlying class relations. But how have they emerged? We provide a historic sketch to show that it was above all the non-economic coercive force, which helped money and property to assert themselves as socially valid social forms. For modern property relations, Marx sketches the process »with blood and dirt« in his account of the so-called primitive accumulation. That the »social act« (Marx), which first established money as a socially valid relationship, had a similar terrorist character, however, is hardly known.
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