David Harvey: Looking Toward a Moneyless Economy and Sleeping Well at Night

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28879-looking-toward-a-moneyless-economy-and-sleeping-well-at-night


http://youtu.be/GeBrBpEaDNI






[Right now,] we'll try to sleep at night wondering how the heck we'll ever get there when our politicians are in hock to the bankers.


Lots of interesting things are happening now with money. Electronic moneys are beginning to erode the traditional monetary forms. We're going to see a revolution in our monetary configuration coming down the pike, and one of the things I try to say to people on the left is you've got to understand this is happening and make sure this is not orchestrated as a right-wing gesture as happens with something like Bitcoin. Is there a way where we on the left can construct an alternative monetary system, which is actually much more democratic and much more socially constructed?