From: Guru George (gurugeorge@sugarland.idiscover.co.uk)
Date: Fri Oct 03 1997 - 15:50:53 MDT
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:04:30 -0400
Remi Sussan <sremi@compuserve.com> wrote:
>Now, I would like to precise my conception of "Left anarchy". It's not
>about theft of pigs or anything else, it's a system which can only work if
>it profits for everybody, otherwise it's not anarchy. It's an economical
>system where the transaction does not occur between two individuals A and
>B, but between A and the whole system. A does not "sell" something to B,
>but simply put it in the environment (like when you
>release a software in "public domain"), where B can find it.
How does this constitute an *economic* system? Where's the economic
calculation? Everything costs energy to make/buy. How do we know
whether A's having made x to "put into the environment" was a net loss
or a net gain to society (whether, to use the Marxist jargon, it was
"socially necessary")?
Also, "the whole system" is not an agent: it has not brains, it doesn't
make choices.
Also, free software transactions occur in the context of a fully
functioning economic system: I don't see how they could occur without
it.
(BTW, I'm not hostile to your ideas, I'm genuinely interested, just very
sceptical.)
Guru George
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