- Capitalism and Alternatives -

...and bad eye-sight (or something)

Posted by: Stoller on November 30, 1999 at 22:17:10:

In Reply to: square pegs posted by Gee on November 30, 1999 at 14:11:17:

: : Can't shake your libertarian resentment towards the interconnectedness of society, can you?

: Can't shake the fact that people care more for their house than their neighbours, can you?

Communism has NOTHING to do with collectivizing personal items of consumption---ONLY the means of production.

: : When you drive on the highway you have a VERY real stake wrapped up with that 'shapeless mass as boss,' do you not?

: ... Great consideration is generally given to fellow road users, but this is not an universal consistent condition - its specific to the driver and the context.

I'll settle for that 'general' consideration.

I never said that communism would be utopia. Slackers, shirkers, criminals, even dangerous drivers---as I adumbrated here---would be 'dealt with' just as capitalist law 'deals with' law-breakers...

: : I do not suggest that---in the socialist future---people will do a ZILLION jobs; I only advocate (like the Bolsheviks) that each person should do physical work, specialized work (of one type), and rotate positions within state administration.

: Perhaps you have specific plans to ponder? Is that not partly privilege - that some people will still hold specialised roles as one of the bows to their string, whilst never having to do the salt mine work that their neighbour does?

Did you EVEN READ the prior post? I said:


I do not suggest that---in the socialist future---people will do a ZILLION jobs; I only advocate (like the Bolsheviks) that each person should do physical work [i.e. work the salt mines], specialized work (of one type), and rotate positions within state administration.


If you 'read' Capital like you read my last post, no wonder...



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