----- Original Message ----- From: "dmschanoes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Before we go too much further down this dusty trail: I have no idea what such societies will look like and how they will regulate themselves. But I do know that the notion of contract is based on private property-- the contradiction between private property and social necessity. ==================== There is no necessary connection between contract and private property. It behooves us all to get over 19th century legal thinking about the private and the social. The legal realists did it, so can we. I do know that contract is in essence the paper reproduction of the alienation of labor. ========================== Zzzzzzzzzz. The end to that alienation requires an end to the conflict between the means and relations of production.. or.. as someone who was intimately involved with the greatest event in human history, the Russian Revolution, put it.... "soviets plus electrification...." Yes, and every cook can govern. We will have achieved something really big when we can say "Every governor cooks." dms ================== A casual perusal of what was meant by *inalienablity* in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as the philosophical and legal analyses of the term since then would, in all likelihood, demonstrate just how tired and non-helpful your use of the term is........... "Soviets plus genetic algorithms and cellular automata." How quaint. Ian
