On 12/22/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, rexonf wrote: > Christianity certainly has a communist aspect. Does Christianity encourage > the accumulation of capital? From my 12 years experience I don't recall any > such. Sharing isn't a communist idea. Christianity long predated communism. You have it backwards. Communism has a Christian aspect -- but not much.
Nobody is claiming that communism invented sharing :-) In communist literature there is a lot of discussion on preceding applications of shared ownership, including that in Christianity. The concept of shared ownership goes back to primitive tribal culture (pre-feudalism) where shared ownership of natural resources was the norm. Just as open source existed before the GPL, it was the norm among the primitive tribes of computer users before some people started treating source code as private capital. We probably all know the story of Stallman and the printer driver, and how he came up with the GPL to counter the evil of proprietary software. Same thing with communism, the concept of common ownership existed long before. But it was something vague, merely a feeling among men. Only in recent years was it articulated, specifically as a counter to capitalism. The GPL is communism as applied to software.
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