Abolition of private property and free market, enslaved people

2002-06-13 Thread miychi
Marx refer about tax as below in Communist manifest MIYACHI TATSUO Psychiatric Department Komaki municipal hosipital 1-20.JOHBUHSHI KOMAKI CITY AICHI PREF. 486-0044 TEL:0568-76-4131 FAX 0568-76-4145 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally

private property

2001-09-01 Thread Jim Devine
[was: Re: [PEN-L:16559] Re: Re: neomercantilism, trade] David Shemano wrote: Why would abolishing private property free people from material want? I can understand the theoretical argument that abolishing private property would free people from poverty, but is not material want relative

Law as aggressive protector of private property.

2001-03-30 Thread Charles Brown
Law as aggressive protector of private property. Thanks to Les S. for this: From slashhdot.org: "A Canadian court has ruled that a farmer growing genetically modified canola without a license violated Monsanto's patent and owes damages. Percy Schmeiser claims that the seeds blew ont

Re: Law as aggressive protector of private property.

2001-03-30 Thread Michael Perelman
Charles, it is worse than that. He has been breeding and collecting his own seeds for decades, developing his own distinctive strains. He sued Monsanto for contaminating his crops with the pollen. Charles Brown wrote: Law as aggressive protector of private property. Thanks to Les S

Re: Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread Timework Web
Let me get this straight. Monsanto's private property is intellectual property, essentially a legal fiction on par with M.'s corporate personhood. The farmer's land is mere _real_ property, essentially also a legal fiction but having a common law history going back many, many centuries. So

Re: Re: Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread Justin Schwartz
Intellectual property is old, too: Patents are in the constitution, and were known (I am sure) for centuries before that. Property is a "fiction," but it has a social objectivity that makes it quite real. --jks Let me get this straight. Monsanto's private property is intellectua

Re: Re: Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:25 AM 3/30/01 -0800, you wrote: Let me get this straight. Monsanto's private property is intellectual property, essentially a legal fiction on par with M.'s corporate personhood. The farmer's land is mere _real_ property, essentially also a legal fiction but having a common law history

Re: Law as aggressive protector of private property.

2001-03-30 Thread Andrew Hagen
The court held that regardless of whether he planted them deliberately or if he merely found them growing on his farm, it was his responsibility to destroy the seeds and seedlings or pay royalties. I'm not familiar with Canadian patent law, but in general those bodies of law that, grouped

Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread Charles Brown
On the ancient and long history of private property of different types especially in European history, see Engels' _The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State_. Private property is the legal crystalization of class exploitative relations of production. So, it is the numero uno

Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/30/01 12:40PM On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:07:50 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Private property is the legal crystalization of class exploitative relations of production. So, it is the numero uno effective principle of bourgeois law and jurisprudence , today's exploitative form

RE: Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread David Shemano
Charles Brown wrote: - People owning stuff is personal property. The aim is not to abolish personal property. Individual consumer goods would be personally owned. Private property has the technical connotation of ownership of the social productive means that are necessary

Re: Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread Andrew Hagen
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:48:02 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Private property has the technical connotation of ownership of the social productive means that are necessary to production in a society with an enormous division of labor or soicalization and specialization of the production process

Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/30/01 01:52PM Charles Brown wrote: - People owning stuff is personal property. The aim is not to abolish personal property. Individual consumer goods would be personally owned. Private property has the technical connotation of ownership of the social

Re: Re: Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
- From: "Andrew Hagen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:40 PM Subject: [PEN-L:9826] Re: Law as aggressive protector of private property On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:07:50 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Private property is the legal crystalizatio

RE: Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread David Shemano
there is still exchange (not the market) in socialism. --- Maybe I am just being dense. You defined "private property" (which you seek to abolish) in your previous post as "Private property has the technical connotation of ownership of the social productive means tha

Re: RE: Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread Jim Devine
David S. wrote: Maybe I am just being dense. You defined "private property" (which you seek to abolish) in your previous post as "Private property has the technical connotation of ownership of the social productive means that are necessary to production in a society with an en

Re: Law as aggressive protector of private property

2001-03-30 Thread Andrew Hagen
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:07:50 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Private property is the legal crystalization of class exploitative relations of production. So, it is the numero uno effective principle of bourgeois law and jurisprudence , today's exploitative form of productive relations

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: RE: private property?

2000-12-09 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: as I've argued before, Mao didn't have complete control. He had to respond to the power and influence of CCP cadres, while the fact that his power was originally based on a peasant revolution limited his power. Dennis Rodman -- no, Redmond -- wrote: Not what the historical

RE: RE: Re: Private Property

2000-12-08 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
: David Shemano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:5814] RE: Re: Private Property Thank you for your many comments to my posts. It is not my intention to get into an extended debate with any of you about socialism v. capitalism

RE: RE: RE: Re: Private Property

2000-12-08 Thread David Shemano
and others who would identify themselves as conservative. David Shemano -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mikalac Norman S NSSC Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 4:58 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [PEN-L:5852] RE: RE: Re: Private Property

Private Property

2000-12-08 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/08/00 03:23PM Feel free to take advantage of my perspective if you think it would be helpful to advance your own understanding. Take care, David Shemano (( CB: Thanks for being such a nice conservative, David.

Re: RE: RE: Re: Private Property

2000-12-08 Thread Jim Devine
At 07:58 AM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote: i can't find cyber-forums with a Conservatism or Right (meaning to the Left of Nazism and Monarchism) perspective at the same level of erudition as presented in PEN-L.* do they exist? what, the Rush Limbaugh ditto-heads don't strive for intellectual

Re: RE: RE: private property?

2000-12-07 Thread Dennis Robert Redmond
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, David Shemano wrote: space begins. "Private property" is my shorthand for saying the rules will provide that with respect to any specific resource, commodity, etc., a single individual gets to decide issues of possession, use and transfer. And if one p

Re: RE: RE: private property?

2000-12-07 Thread Jim Devine
ons of the question, the fact is that externalities allow the violation of my freedom. (It's traditional to discuss issues of freedom in very individualistic terms, so I'm doing so.) If a company pollutes the air, it's violating my freedom, denying me the availability of fresh air. It's using its &q

Re: Re: RE: RE: private property?

2000-12-07 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:18 AM 12/7/00 -0800, you wrote: And if one person owns literally *everything*, the way that, say, Mao Zedong once owned mainland China through that Absolutist-style holding company otherwise known as the CCP? as I've argued before, Mao didn't have complete control. He had to respond to

RE: Re: Private Property

2000-12-07 Thread David Shemano
Thank you for your many comments to my posts. It is not my intention to get into an extended debate with any of you about socialism v. capitalism. I think such a debate is about ends and not means and this forum is not appropriate for such a debate. Let me make a suggestion. I am not an

Re: Re: Re: RE: RE: private property?

2000-12-07 Thread Dennis Robert Redmond
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jim Devine wrote: as I've argued before, Mao didn't have complete control. He had to respond to the power and influence of CCP cadres, while the fact that his power was originally based on a peasant revolution limited his power. Not what the historical record says. Mao

Re: RE: Re: Private Property

2000-12-07 Thread Justin Schwartz
I am a practicing corporate bankruptcy attorney. (My motto is capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell). Some of us here belong to the wor;d's third oldest profession and there are legal discussions intermittwently; pitch in if you have idea. Btw, I am a believer in

private property?

2000-12-06 Thread Jim Devine
[was: Re: [PEN-L:5724] RE: Re: RE: RE: Re: GOP vs Dem Behavior (e.g., voting) ] At 12:46 PM 12/6/00 -0800, you wrote: Second, I believe, as an empirical matter, that a political-economic system that encourages and defends private property is more conducive to the achievement of individual human

RE: private property?

2000-12-06 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
At 12:46 PM 12/6/00 -0800, you wrote: Second, I believe, as an empirical matter, that a political-economic system that encourages and defends private property is more conducive to the achievement of individual human happiness than a system to the contrary, especially because the causes

RE: RE: private property?

2000-12-06 Thread David Shemano
your space begins. "Private property" is my shorthand for saying the rules will provide that with respect to any specific resource, commodity, etc., a single individual gets to decide issues of possession, use and transfer. "Private property" can evolve to take many forms, o

RE: RE: RE: private property?

2000-12-06 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
ends and your space begins. Ah, the addiction to individualism runs deepto the point of a majority of one determining the "rules" for everyone else. How would that person be held accountable in your system? "Private property" is my shorthand for saying the rule

RE: RE: private property?

2000-12-06 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/00 08:20PM No matter what political-economic system you can imagine, rules are going to have to be established. Somebody has to decide whether to devote resources to guns or butter. Somebody has to decide where my space ends and your space begins. "Private pro

Re: RE: RE: private property?

2000-12-06 Thread Justin Schwartz
on the welfare of others, without their having a far say in the matter; and it corrupts politics because those that have the gold, rule. I advocate markets, as is notorious on this list, but that is quite different from private property. --jks

Re: Private property

2000-12-06 Thread Tom Walker
David Shemano wrote: The issue, from my perspective, is not whether property is "private" in the sense you seem to be asking, or whether rather metaphysical notions of freedom and consent can exist under capitalism. and "Private property" is my shorthand for saying th

Re: Private Property

2000-12-06 Thread phillp2
Property rights are not only a relationship, but also are a bundle of rights. There is no such thing as simple private property. Privatizing property, as Proudhom declared in 1849, is "theft" --"la propriete, c'est le vol." Eric Roll notes, Proudhon "acce

[PEN-L:4093] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: secret societies and the originsofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
Since the URL address doen not seem to work any more, here is the full massage. Subject: George Soros - Part 1 http://www.infobahnos.com/~jtoth/web185.html FREE INTERNET FORUM Subject: The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros - Part 1

[PEN-L:4094] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: secret societies and the originsofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
http://www.infobahnos.com/~jtoth/web188.html FREE FORUM Subject: The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros - Part 2 of 2 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (stefan lemieszewski) Date of posting: 12 Nov 1996 09:36:05 GMT

[PEN-L:4114] Re: Re: Re: Re: secret societies and the origins ofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Sam Pawlett
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: How many 'covert actions' are open secrets? Yoshie Doesn't the word "covert" imply that these actions are or are supposed to be secret? Why not call them overt operations? SP

[PEN-L:4116] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: secret societies and the originsofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Carrol Cox
Sam Pawlett wrote: Doesn't the word "covert" imply that these actions are or are supposed to be secret? Why not call them overt operations? Sam, are you serious in this question or are you just wisecracking? If you are serious, then you need to study politics more thoroughly. I'll give

[PEN-L:4102] secret societies and the origins ofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Charles Brown
Throughout the U.S. war on Nicargua, the Reagan adminstration and monopoly media called it a "covert war". Charles Brown Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/99 03:00PM How many 'covert actions' are open secrets? Yoshie

[PEN-L:4098] Re: Re: Re: secret societies and the origins ofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
How many 'covert actions' are open secrets? Yoshie

[PEN-L:4088] Re: Re: Re: Re: secret societies and the originsofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
Sorros is not unique. He fits right into the tradition of super rich foundations that fund liberal and even radical causes to make them safe for capitalism, starting with the Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, Mellon Foundations, etc., etc. Soros is slightly more honest, because at least he is not

[PEN-L:4079] Re: Re: Re: secret societies and theoriginsofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Charles Brown
rgeoisie have always been dependent upon secrecy , PRIVACY. The revelation of secrets threatens "privacy" and thus private property. I realize that's structuralism. Then there's Oliver North's "plausible deniability". Tom, is that Taussig , Mick ? I just realized it p

[PEN-L:4073] Re: Re: secret societies and the originsofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Charles Brown
s been dependent upon secrecy , PRIVACY. The revelation of secrets threatens "privacy" and thus private property. I realize that's structuralism. Then there's Oliver North's "plausible deniability". Tom, is that Taussig , Mick ? I just realized it probably is as you are in Bol

[PEN-L:4076] Re: Re: Re: secret societies and the originsofcapitalist private property

1999-03-03 Thread Doug Henwood
Charles Brown wrote: Isn't Popper-Soros' concept of an "Open Society" ironic when the bourgeoisie rely so much on Secrecy ? What do Popper and Soros say about Open Secrets ? Good point, Charles. If I may quote my review of Soros' book from LBO #88, which was emailed to electronic subscribers

[PEN-L:2895] Private property rights

1996-02-12 Thread Lisa Rogers
From: Terrence Mc Donough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rousseau on property TM: [snipped bit on Roman slavery.] Private property rights have never guaranteed freedom of any sort. LR: Of course it does, it's just "freedom" of a particular sort for a particular class of people.