[lbo-talk] private property and mortgages

[bitch at pulpculture.org]

At 10:51 PM 2/1/2007, Shane Mage wrote:
>>  Who here on LBO envisions a commie society where we own nothing, where 
>> our cars and stereos and clothes are collective property we kind of rent 
>> or something?
>
>I most certainly do.  The Pythagoreans believed that "friends should
>have all things in common."  The ideal of a communist society is that
>all people, without exception, relate to each other as friends.  Nobody
>now alive (at least since the death of Abbe Pierre) is able ever to 
>function in
>such a society.  But a communist society, as the culmination of conscious
>human evolution, would continue for as many centuries as human beings
>continue their species existence as social individuals.  For that long
>(after a century or two) it would subsist as a society of Pythagorean friends.
>
>Shane Mage

that was beautiful. but gd-it, there were a lot more folks who were opposed 
to all forms of property, weren't there?

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