People been trying to separate money and state since 1848 🤯

Like John Locke, Warren was an adherent of the doctrine of property in the self. Our complete sovereign autonomy over what we do with our bodies was God-given, but everywhere men were subject to the whims of bosses and governments. 

Warren refused to join the abolitionist movement because he believed slavery was only a specific instance of a more general problem of the economic oppression of man by man.

Arguing that money was the primary evil and mode through which our bodies are commercialized, Warren developed a system of ‘time-trading’ for exchanging labour. What is most striking is that he developed this project at almost precisely the same time Proudhon was developing his Bank of the People in Paris (1848), and (it seems) completely independently. Proudhon’s Bank of the People was designed to transform everything, not just labour, into exchangeable specie, thereby democratizing money.