Communism

Joe R. Golowka joeG at ieee.org
Sat Jun 29 20:44:40 PDT 2002



> I have argued here that there would more lawyers (and judges) because
> whether or not a post-cap society abolished all markets, it would have a lot
> more regulation. The politicizatiuon of many decisions we now leave to
> "automatic forces" would lead to disputes. Rules would proliferate and there
> would be more need of experts to interpret them. One hopes that violent
> crime would decrease, but fraud probably would increase. I would hope that
> socialist penologyw ould be less punitive, relying less oin incarceration.

Sounds like a distopia to me. One can solve disputes without judges, lawyers, etc.


> I expect I have not overlooked that there will not be class conflict. That
> is is not the only kind of irreconciable conflict. Very few of the disptes I
> dealw ith, except perhaps the employment ones, involve that sort of issue.
> Rather you have issues like: I was injured. You were negligent. You should
> have to pay me. Or: you promised to deliver X and you didn't. Pay me. Etc.

Which is only a problem if you maintain a market economy.


> Anyway, even where there are no such clashes of interests, there will still
> be a proliferation of rules governing rather technical and specialized
> subjects, and these will require specilaized interpreters.

There don't have to be hyperspecialized rules with a separate class of people to interpret them. The implementation of such a system would mean the rule of the managerial & intellectual class.


> An inefficient enterprise has to be shut down.
> The workers get other jobs, but goi through serious dislocation.

Again premised on a market.

-- Joe R. Golowka JoeG at ieee.org Anarchist FAQ - http://www.anarchyfaq.org

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied today, then every Post-War American president would have to be hanged." - Noam Chomsky



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