The Rise of the General Equivalent

Cooper: Marx doesn't really give us a historical account so much in capital. He gives us a conceptual one and then Dolas and Gortriont-Rioff and fill in the historical part in Antietopus. But I'd say there's still a lot of historical pieces missing that we would want to say, he says. Cooper: The image of equality starts to happen when you get a system of exchanges regulated by a priestly class in ancient Sumer. You also get the rise of slavery and these are not unrelated and the rise of debt,. all of those things happen together.