Tahir,
The ideals you list below are sweet, and I feel confident that every socialist
identifies with them. You choose to call them Communism (though they differ markedly
from the realities of those who practiced political economy under that name). That's
up to you. What I want to know is: how do you plan to get there? Thoreau said that
it's a fine thing to build our castles in the sky, but our foundations must be built
right here on the ground. Very well, what do you propose? How are we going to realize
these fine ambitions?
IMO, Cooperation offers us a way to realize much of it, and does not require any
wholesale political change to effect it. Cooperation has shown itself to be adaptable
to a number of political conditions (though there have been a few that have done it in
from time to time . . .) It would only require a kind of moral commitment on the part
of a significant number of participants. There is absolutely no reason why it could
not command, by degrees, economic power and then, as a reflex, political power, just
as the guilds in medieval Europe, without ever firing a shot at the landed gentry or
the mercantile associations -- real economic and political hegememony which lasted
till the industrial revolution. It has been done before, it is in the process of
being done again. Even as we speak more cooperatives slowly spring up and
revolutionize our way of doing business. If the movement became truly popular, it
might just be the ticket home for all of us.
Peace,
Ken
Communism is first of all union. It is not domination of
nature but reconciliation, and thus regeneration of nature:
human beings no longer treat nature simply as an object for
their development, as a useful thing, but as a subject (not
in the philosophic sense) not separate from them if only
because nature is in them. The naturalization of man and the
humanization of nature (Marx) are realized; the dialectic of
subject and object ends.
What follows is the destruction of urbanization and the
formation of a multitude of communities distributed over the
earth. This implies the suppression of monoculture, another
form of division of labour, and a complete transformation of
the transportation system: transportation will diminish
considerably. Only a communal (communitarian) mode of life
can allow the human being to rule his reproduction, to limit
the (at present mad) growth of population without resorting
to despicable practices (such as destroying men and women).
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