money economy, n.All

Money economy (n.) seeps ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like corrosive acid into the old life of rural communities; kinship knew neither money nor debt, and the mortgage respected neither gens nor phratry.

Money economy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠wrongly defined by labour being bought with money; money bought services long before, without revolutionizing anything — what is new is not that labour-power can be bought but that it appears as a commodity at all.