--- Eubulides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Ballard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > By private/common property here, I assume the legal > eagles are not speaking of one's socks or home, but > of > the tools of production and ownership of the Earth. > It seems perfectly possible to my mind for one > person > to want to have five pairs of socks while the other > is > not satisfied with less than ten pairs. This does > not > cause unequal fortune. The cause of unequal fortune > is the legalized robbery found in the contract > between > the employer and the employee. > > Regards, > Mike B) > > =============== > > And just what is the authoritative, non-defeasible > vantage point from > which the term legalized robbery is meaningful?
Class society is built on the foundation of exploitation of the many by the few i.e. the appropriation of the lion's share of the social product of labour by a ruling class. From the point of view of those who might live in a classless society, this dynamic would likely be viewed as a form of legalized robbery, sanctified by law and enforced by the State. > Proudhon was a great > rhetorician no doubt, but his arguments simply don't > fly in the 21st > century. I think that you're right about this. I don't think that they flew too well in the other centuries either. > What, if anything, would/could replace contract law > in the society/ies of > the future? > > Inquiring minds want to know. > If and when Capital as a social relation is transcended and a classless, Statless society emerges, I could see some forms of mutual agreement, but none which would legalize the exploitation of the many by the few. YFTSR, Mike B) ===== ***************************************************************** What we found in examining diaries, letters, autobiographies, pediatric and pedagogical literature back to antiquity was that good parenting appears to be something only historically achieved, and that the further one goes back into the past the more likely one would be to find children killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized and sexually abused by adults. Indeed, it soon appeared likely that a good mother, one who was reasonably devoted to her child and more or less able to empathize with and fulfill its needs, was nowhere to be found prior to modern times. It seemed to me that childhood was one long nightmare from which we have only gradually and only recently begun to awaken. LLOYD deMAUSE "Psychohistory and Psychotherapy," Foundations of Psychohistory 1992 http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
