From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 12:32:57 MDT
> (Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>):
> Private property and "the state" both existed before the idea of
> capitalism did. They have clear pre-human antecedants...
> Capitalism is probably a human invention. I'm not even sure how it could
> be defined so that we could look around for non-human analogs.
Bonobos will trade sexual favors for food. Sounds like capitalism
to me.
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