JH wrote: >Regardless of the veracity of Hardin's story, it'd be easy for >historians to document a myriad other cases in which free access to a >rivalrous good becomes socially inefficient. But so what? Marxists >don't deny this possibility. Marxists don't advocate immediate free >distribution of all goods. ____________
I don't think that is exactly the point. The point of Hardin's story is that common usage of property held in common facilitated collective selfishness and the destruction of resources. The facts, and the facts are not "regardless" are that no such thing happened. This is really not an issue of free and equal access to resources becoming socially inefficient... the very posing of the issue in these terms assumes atomized private property holders competing for maximized, mutually exclusive, use of the "commons" resource-- in short the utlimate capitalist myth of entrepreneurs, only this time, entrepreneurs gone wild, where greed is good, and everyday in everyway is the war of all against all. Good morning, Mr. Hobbes. The good ships Hobbes, bottom scrubbing and laying out 20 mile nets are not small proprietors utilizing a common resource for the reproduction of use values. -----Original Message----- >From: Julio Huato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jun 22, 2007 9:54 AM >To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU >Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Overfishing > >
