- 18 Apr 2013 03:15
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People don't work for free. They work because they are invested in their own communities and their own personal lives and the welfare of both. They work to sustain themselves and their communities, and also because they perhaps enjoy their work. But their work is not necessarily solely about themselves and their own personal grandeur. It is a social product, socially sustained. So yes, we are talking about an economy where a "money nexus" is not what binds us. Technology and production are put to the use of human needs as opposed to human labor being in service with technology, as cogs in machines, for the production of profit, and profit of a few.
Of course the aim of libertarian socialism is to be global, however I don't think this means that before one society reaches that point that they cease to interact with other societies.
Before giving my opinion on this arrangement, I need a reality check. Is the description above accurate?
People don't work for free. They work because they are invested in their own communities and their own personal lives and the welfare of both. They work to sustain themselves and their communities, and also because they perhaps enjoy their work. But their work is not necessarily solely about themselves and their own personal grandeur. It is a social product, socially sustained. So yes, we are talking about an economy where a "money nexus" is not what binds us. Technology and production are put to the use of human needs as opposed to human labor being in service with technology, as cogs in machines, for the production of profit, and profit of a few.
Do you see exceptions (e.g. in trade with foreign countries)? Or do you anticipate that the entire inter-connect global economy will operate on such mutual gift basis?
Of course the aim of libertarian socialism is to be global, however I don't think this means that before one society reaches that point that they cease to interact with other societies.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs 'pass,' so long as nothing challenges them, just as banknotes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
--William James
--William James