- 04 Jul 2012 11:27
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The solution to 1984 is 1973!
"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use." - Joseph Stalin
Capitalists view land as just another asset to be bought, used and sold for perceived profit and advantage. I think we would have more luck buying from a capitalist state than any other kind of state. Ideology doesn't come into it much for them. Think US capitalists cheerfully handed over almost the entirety of their industrial capability to Communist China in return for short term profits off the back of cheap chinese labour... Truly the capitalists sold the 'rope' the chinese will use to hang the US empire. Nationalistic governments and monarchic governments would be the least interested in this kind of trade because land and people are the only asset they really value and they always prefer to have more than less (for reasons of prestige and security), also ideology matters more to them as it is a primary support for their control.
Can an anarchist collective ever be organised enough to authorise a large scale project like this kind of land purchase? I believe so; it is a matter of technically managing a direct democracy where each concerned individual can review the proposal and vote for or against. If it is the case that anarchists can never organise anykind of large scale project then anarchism is not viable in the real world.
Anyway I throw in the idea for a land purchase as means of gaining a sovereign patch of land to work with but in the end let direct democracy decide.
Capitalists view land as just another asset to be bought, used and sold for perceived profit and advantage. I think we would have more luck buying from a capitalist state than any other kind of state. Ideology doesn't come into it much for them. Think US capitalists cheerfully handed over almost the entirety of their industrial capability to Communist China in return for short term profits off the back of cheap chinese labour... Truly the capitalists sold the 'rope' the chinese will use to hang the US empire. Nationalistic governments and monarchic governments would be the least interested in this kind of trade because land and people are the only asset they really value and they always prefer to have more than less (for reasons of prestige and security), also ideology matters more to them as it is a primary support for their control.
Can an anarchist collective ever be organised enough to authorise a large scale project like this kind of land purchase? I believe so; it is a matter of technically managing a direct democracy where each concerned individual can review the proposal and vote for or against. If it is the case that anarchists can never organise anykind of large scale project then anarchism is not viable in the real world.
Anyway I throw in the idea for a land purchase as means of gaining a sovereign patch of land to work with but in the end let direct democracy decide.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!