As Marx pointed out, the revolution comes like a thief in the night when no one is expecting it.
Money buys the machines that control people’s access to work. Humanity’s task is to reverse that order.
Clearly, trade and finance are not organized, in Africa or the world at large, with a view to liberating a popular movement.
The present economic crisis stems from the gradual disintegration of 'national capitalism', embodied in national currency, from the early 1970s onwards. It needs to be properly understood as a moment in the history and anthropology of money.
