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RE: The Venus Project And Resource-Based Economy - Transformation Towards Truly Anarchistic Social System

in #anarchism8 years ago (edited)

Excellent article!
Just one minor disagreement,it is not essential IMO to either anarcho-communism or anarcho-syndicalism to integrate the monetary system.
Wikipedia on anarcho-communism:
Anarcho-communism stresses egalitarianism, the abolition of social hierarchy, and class distinctions arising from unequal wealth distribution, as well as the abolition of money and private property (while retaining respect for personal property). Replacing these approaches would be collective production and distribution of goods by means of voluntary association. In anarchist communism, the state and private property would no longer exist. Each individual and group would be free to contribute to production and to satisfy their needs based on their own choice. Systems of production and distribution would be managed by their participants.
And on anarcho-syndicalism:
Anarcho-syndicalists seek to abolish the wage system, regarding it as "wage slavery", and state or private ownership of the means of production, which they believe lead to class divisions. Not all seek to abolish money per se. Ralph Chaplin states that "the ultimate aim of the General Strike as regards wages is to give to each producer the full product of his labor. The demand for better wages becomes revolutionary only when it is coupled with the demand that the exploitation of labor must cease."[159]

I believe that the real problem is that both these philosophies failed because the time was not ripe, the market and state forces were too strong.
And now we need a different model, a post scarcity anarchism, or communalism. A resource based economy is the logical conclusion to post scarcity thinking. But how to make the transition? Obviously technology is at the core of this
I will be posting articles about transition models soon, And I hope you will participate in the dicussion, because I think transition models are urgent.

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Very interesting comment. I think that anarcho-communism is the closest to RBE but unfortunately this anarchistic system (as well as the other mentioned above) do not offer logical and comprehensive means and solution explaining how to make such system sustainable. There is very little science there and application of technology. These systems are very scientifically underinformed and in some parts pseudoscientific. They were invented long time ago before we knew so much about human behavior and social engineering. They were invented when technology and science was not as well developed as it is now.
The most important thing in transformation towards RBE is changing current society's value system. The values within our society are primitive and has not changed for thousands of years. They are not up to date with current scientific understandings and level of technology :-)
I'm looking forward to your articles :-)

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