[p2p-research] against human rentals

[Kevin Carson]

On 8/6/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes, that sounds like a good transitional approach,
>
> by the way, I think that generally speaking, peer to peer differs and  moves
> away from the classic socialist approach by insisting on the maximum amount
> of personal sovereignty and control of the means of production ... i.e. it
> distrusts collective ownership that can be appropriated by institutions and
> the state, in favour of both individual and collectivist formst that are
> under maximum control of the individual who can freely invest or withdraw
> his productive resources,

The individualist anarchists in America (and Hodgskin in England, who
was something of a kindred spirit) were socialists who also took the
ultra-individualist stance you describe.  Their position was that the
important thing was to remove monopoly rents on land and capital, and
then let free individuals cooperate (or not) as they saw fit.  Josiah
Warren, in particular, the ancestor of the American individualist
movement, had a temperamental aversion to all forms of cooperation
that didn't involve completely severable interests (e.g., he thought
that in cooperative production each separate piece of machinery should
be owned by one and only one person, with no joint shares in
anything).

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