Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970120093226.008ed100@ilhawaii.net> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 09:32:28 -1000 From: Jay Hanson <mailto:jhanson@ILHAWAII.NET> Subject: Re: Capitalism: Personal Conclusion To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 11:23 AM 1/20/97 -0700, you wrote:>> It follows that a cooperative (non-exploitive) community can only
>> be sustained under authoritarian government.
>
>I don't agree, for this to me is contradictory. Cooperation cannot
>be imposed, it can only be achieved by means of a participative
>democrative government (neither authoritarian nor laisse faire).
I think our difference lies in definitions. What needs to be strictly controlled is exploitation of the commons (expanded definition). I call that "authoritian", but theoretically these kinds of restrictions could be established in a "systems" democracy.
I just think that our government is too corrupt gone to ever do it. I hope that I am wrong.
Jay