I do mean it positively, but I can understand why you would get a negative reading. I was trying to illustrate how reducing words to their components and dismissing them like that is such a stupid thought terminating cliche. Botulism, anarchism, autism, midwesternism, descriptivism are all words ending in -ism but really do not refer to similar or comparable things. The deeper idea that subscribing to or employing an ideology inherently leads to failure, which the original comment asserted, has already been torn to shreds by others, so I targeted the less important but more annoying failure of thought. I should have more carefully selected my words, sorry.
"when" is irrelevant, it wasn't in use in the city until later. The general point was that labor is done for reasons beside wages, and you're deluded by modern capitalism into thinking that they aren't
When Rome was established, city walls built, aqueducts constructed, complex trade networks established, no one was being paid a wage, but that was certainly a society. They eventually got money and used it, but it wasn't essential to running a society and still isn't.
Go get those lumberjacks to cut down that forest... wait a minute... they won't do it unless someone pays them??? Really? But they will own the lumber... oh they don't need that lumber? Oh man. I guess no one owns that lumber and no one is gonna cut it down then. If only there were some way to get those guys who are experts at cutting down trees to cut them down. Then wed have lumber to build houses.... but wait- the guys that know how to build house wont build them? But since they don't wanna do it I guess there's nothing to be done. Since... ya know... paying people for their work is not valuable and apparently inherently worthless.
I forgot your instance isn´t great with subtext. If you are aware that the landlords and bourgeoisie are killing people each and every day either indirectly or directly, as well as stealing from them, sexually assaulting them, and committing every other crime imaginable, I assumed you would also understand that a) killing is already on the table, and b) it is not only justified but necessary to end their actions.
when my ancestors can find their way around a foreign country just as well as their home town, then I will accept criticism.