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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