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  Question 138: Why did bourgeois economics never attempt to derive the genesis of the money form?   
  [61] Casio: Money's Capacity to Blind.   The simple answer to question 138 is that the bourgeois economists were much more concerned with how money acted while already being circulated in a capitalist economy. It has never really been a concern of bourgeois economics to analyze why, or how, money came to be; rather its focus is how to optimize and manipulate an already existing phenomenon. Like many other facets of the capitalist system, money is so pervasive that it becomes “blinding”. Money is so present in our daily lives it becomes almost unquestionable, it seems as if money is self-justifying and natural. It certainly would not be beneficial or even seem possible for bourgeois economics to analyze the beginnings of something that it takes to be as natural.   
  Hans: This seeming naturalness of money makes it easy to avoid certain embarassing questions. If everybody were aware of it that money represents labor, this would make it more difficult for the capitalists to justify low wages and their profits.   
 
 
 
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