Food Is, Still, Clearly Not a Human Right -

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 2 20:42:12 PST 2002



>CB: The liberal right that conflicts with the power of workers to control
>the means of production is in the U.S. Constitution represented by the
>Fifth Amendment "Takings Clause" by which private property may not be taken
>without just compensation, and elsewhere in U.S. legal principles such as
>the common law employment-at-will doctrine, et al. See my " For A
>Constitutional Amendment for A Right To A Living Wage "

This is economic liberaliam, which I do not maintain. I am a socialist. There is a good deal in the Constitution, and a great deal more in the law, that I would change. I am a political liberal. That means I support representative government, universal suffrage, competitive elections, and extensive social and political liberties. I don't think these are incompatible with common ownership of productic assets, abolitionof wage labor, and worker's control of production. I'd extend democratic political principles to the economy. No one here has even hinted at an argument that this can't be done,or that common wonership, worker's control, etc., preclude competitive elections, etc. You all know this is my view, I've said it a zillion times. jks

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