monetarized economy involved a social structure entirely 
     different from that which went with an economy in kind. It 
     was this change in the social structure accompanying the 
     use of money rather than the technical fact of its use 
     which ought to be emphasized, he thought. Had this 
     point been expanded to include the varying social 
     structures accompanying trading activity in the ancient 
     world the controversy might have been resolved before it 
     began.

In other words, had Rodbertus further explained that different 
forms of money and exchange structured societies in varying 
ways, generations of confused controversy might have been 
avoided. The matter was finally explained when Karl Bucher 
approached the classical world not from our conventional mode 
of historical retrospect but from the primitive side. By starting