Abolishing money

For Bockelmann, the abolition of money is not a utopian call for a return to pre-modern times, but rather the logical consequence of the realisation that money as a social institution is not a natural phenomenon, but rather a historical one – and therefore can also be overcome historically. He argues that the compulsion to accumulate money, which gave rise to capitalism, competition, state formation and global expansion, does not have to be eternal.