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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Just the first line raises so many basic social questions:

Do all the workers who contributed to the building of the home own it? If so, do they all get to live in it? If not, must they then communally determine who lives in it? How would that be organized? Majority opinion? A reversion to primitive village social structures? What's the purpose of supposing they get a minimum wage? What does it change about their contribution if they were highly paid by the owner? If you admit that their labor was commoditized to build the house, and they were compensated by the owner according to the socially agreed value of their work, then what does it matter if the owner didn't build it and why does that prevent the owner from claiming it as his private property? What if the owner overpaid them - i.e paid each the amount it would cost to commission laborers to build their own similar home? Are they then self-exploiting if they use the money their labor earned to buy the labor of others to build homes?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Most of your questions are answered in the chapter I linked. It's a good read, check it out. Obviously, the whole ordeal Kropotkin describes would require ingenuity, and patience, and M U T U A L A I D.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

99% of questions about libsoc theory were asked and answered 100 years ago in that one book alone haha

[–] [email protected] -2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

If by "ingenuity and patience" you mean divine intervention, maybe. What he describes is spontaneous abolition of rent followed by well-meaning volunteers creating statistics for use in a program that would determine who gets to live in what house. It's laden with romantic claims about the selflessness and infallibility of the masses, and a rosy view of the Paris Commune typical of the times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I see you're not actually interested in exploring these ideas, just insisting they won't work with bad faith questions.

People like you are why landlords still exist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Bad faith questions like "why does Kropotkin assume what he assumes." Sure. You're like a religious zealot, dodging around the tough questions deservedly asked of your text and blaming naysayers for the evil in the world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

If you actually read the book, you'd know how silly most of the things you just said are, especially about the Paris Commune. But I appreciate you sharing your opinion :)

edit: btw, its called conquest of bread. good stuff, check it out. you dont need to agree with it, but its a great intro to learning about some of the moral philosophies behind anarchy and communism and why they surged in the late 19th and early 20th century

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago

I know its name and I read it years ago. It's filled with silly propositions. And what I said about the Pairs Commune is actually uncontroversial. It was in fact greatly romaniticized by Europe's dissident left.