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The Social Blood Highly recommended A short, critical read, explains 'why' central bankers are obsessed with "programmable money" The Moses Hess realisation yesterday slotted right into the picture ➡️ Summary: "Moses Hess, inspired by Hegel, proposed that money acts as the 'social blood,' integrating society like a circulatory system. Hegel envisioned history moving towards organic unity, but lacked a mechanism to explain how millions of people could function as a coherent whole. Hess inverted Hegel's ideas, arguing that money, not the state, is the primary force for social integration, making individuals interdependent. Hess's critique of money as a tool of 'slavery' inadvertently provided a blueprint for how to control social circulation. Marx extended Hess's ideas by identifying the 'centralization of credit' as a key lever for controlling the social organism. Lenin operationalized this control through 'universal accounting and control,' aiming for total surveillance of production and distribution. Bogdanov developed tektology, a universal science of organization, viewing society as a system to be optimized through information processing. Leontief's input-output analysis made economic flows calculable, rendering the social organism's metabolism visible. The modern concept of the Circular Economy and the Bank for International Settlements' 'Unified Ledger' represent the completion of this integrated, controlled social system. The core insight is that social integration occurs through circulation, and control over this circulation grants control over the entire social organism." https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-social-blood ➡️ My Opinion: This article is diagnostically brilliant and strategically incomplete. - It explains: how control could work, why elites pursue it - It does not explain: why it will eventually fail or what replaces it The next phase is not total control, nor total collapse.

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