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RE: An Original Parable about Voluntaryism

in #anarchism8 years ago

You are proposing communism. But that went so well every other time in the past when it was tried. Surely your scheme would work where everyone else's failed?

Do you know that the reason why the USSR did not die of starvation was because Lenin basically allowed agriculture to be a free market? This is why even still today in Russia most farms are family concerns and average size is 5 acres.

The problem with your scheme of ubiquitous commons is that human beings are not commons. Who gets to decide whose is the greatest 'need'. When you boil it down, and I am going to be a bit nihilist here, nobody needs anything. You don't need to be alive. Need is no metric. Humans survive in very extreme situations although if it goes on for a long time it usually ends their lives prematurely.

Everything everyone wants is a want. There is no needs. We don't need you, you don't need me. We are here, and the real question is how can we both profit at each other's gain.