[p2p-research] against human rentals

[Michel Bauwens]

hi kevin,

i think your notion here of severable agreements is a breakthrough concept,
and really hope you can elaborate, eventually for a blog entry,

this may be the analogical concept to forking in the domain of physical
resources,

Michel

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
> --
> Kevin Carson
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