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MonkeyBoy
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Re: This throws a spanner in the works
Jun 26, 2002, 18:48
A commune approach to ownership of some of the land would be a step forward from state ownership and definitely better than a Gangster Elite owning it.

The trouble is will the local communities be able to buy the land. Coperative ownership of the land by communities would be brilliant - but I fear there are not enough ForwardThinkers in the Russian parliament to push through even limited coperative ownership of some pieces of land.

Wholesale coperative ownership of all the land would be total CommonOwnership of the land - which would threaten Russia's Mafia ruling class, as well as threaten The concept of private landownership in the West - who are supplying all kinds of aid & money to Russia's capitalists.

The trouble with limited coperative ownership or small anarchist communities is they would be as Marx said 'islands of Socialism within Capitalism'. This could create problems for the commmunes as they would still be living with a competive world all around them. They would have to compromise and even trade with the finacial system - even just to get machinery etc. As well as have all kinds of pressure and conditioning from outside.

The communes wouldn't be able to realise there full coperative potential. They would have to have links with other such hypothetical communes in Russia.

I'm all for communities running things coperatively. Any communes would have to part of a greater force pushing for the coperative ownership of everything in any local community, anywhere!
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