On Mar 14, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> So, mildly pwoggy food and day-care coops, in which people work with
> other people, are indicative of reactionary individualism but mildly
> pwoggy homeowners associations, in which owners work with other
> owners, are a stop on the path to socialism? Good to know.
I did say that most of those things were very nice, and I meant it. But otherwise: scale, dude. Day care is mostly organized around small proprietorships. Housing, however, is deeply embedded in the capital markets. I'm not talking about "homeowners associations" - I'm talking about limited equity co-ops, which are pretty different things. They'd be a step in getting housing out of the circuits of capital into something more stable and protected.
You do seem to like to avoid questions of scale. When I asked you about keeping the electricity running, you answered with a silly joke about "the children." Here again, you're missing the point. I don't think it's so much a personal thing as a real systematic blindness of autonomists and anarchists, who can't get their minds beyond the very local.
Doug