University of Cumbria free currency course w/ added bonus communist propaganda

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http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-friendly-university-offers-free-course-future-money/

The University of Cumbria has announced the launch of a free online Masters-level course that will look at the future of money.

The month long 'Money and Society' MOOC (massive open online course) will be targeted at "monetary innovators and activists from any political persuasion", and look into "the essence of money and how it has been interpreted and misinterpreted over the last three millennia", according to the university.

Among other things, the course will seek to address the "dangerous assumption, prevalent in the bitcoin community, that money is best understood as an asset with value in itself".

Professor Jem Bendell, co-designer of the course, said:

"Once we understand that a currency is a process, not a thing, we can explore and design the innovations that use currencies as tools in service of a productive community."

More than one hundred students have already signed up to the course, which is due to start on 16th February. Notably, the British university also accepts bitcoin for tuition fees.

Yes, please "teach" us.  Teach us how money shouldn't have any value.  Then we can talk later about what we should be allowed to have that does have value.  A house and land?  No, the government will take that from you if you go 1 year without paying more taxes.  Let me guess - we don't need anything of value, because the government will provide for us?

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we can explore and design the innovations that use currencies as tools in service of a productive community

So "we" (meaning you and not me)
can "design" (meaning centrally plan and dictate)
the "innovations" (restrictive laws)
that "use currencies as tools" (take away our assets and therefore our power to stay free)
in "service" (enforced servitude)
of a "productive community" (community means everybody, but not any individuals.  so it doesn't apply to you personally, it's always for other people)

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This is really bizarre. Are we sure this is real?

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http://iflas.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/money-and-society-mooc.html

I was going to ask if you get a certificate then saw this:

The full schedule follows below. On the Money and Society MOOC you will be joined by participants on the Certificate of Achievement in Sustainable Exchange, which is a credit-bearing module offered by the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at the University of Cumbria. Four days of classes in person at the Docklands Campus in London begin on March 18th, featuring Professor Bendell, Leander Bindewald and a range of guest lecturers. These classes explore the wider issues of currency innovation and the collaborative economy. There is a fee for the certificate, not the MOOC. The deadline to enrol for the certificate is March 13th but you must have started the MOOC in order to enrol.

I wonder how much it is? Could be a rip-off but if it was cheap just to cover expenses it would be cool to have.

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This is really bizarre. Are we sure this is real?

What, communists?  People teaching children to hate their parents and tear down society?  Yes, I'm sure it's real.

This book is real:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital

"Das Kapital" means "money".  It's a book that was targeted at monetary innovators and activists from any political persuasion, and it looked into the essence of money and how it has been interpreted and misinterpreted over the last three millennia.

To learn about the real effects of that book and its ideas, see also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Communist_revolutions

This link doesn't have the total figure of how many hundreds of millions of people were killed over these ideas, but it's a good start.