Re: The Abolition of Work (link)

Lech K. Lesiak wrote:

> On 3 Feb 2005 quirk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> > However, I tend to think the that focus on "work" is misplaced, my
> > position is that is "Riccardian" or "Economic" Rents that are the
basis
> > of alientated labour, "The Abolition of Rent" is what is needed.
>
> Nice idea, but I'm not sure how that can be accomplished.

Funny you should ask.

This is the intent of my "Venture Communism" proposal, the subject of a
not-quite-dead-yet, two-hundred-and-some-odd-post thread in sci.econ
and alt.slack, unfortunately besides some interesting tangents on
intellectual property and nazi/communist comparisons most of the thread
consists of some NASCAR fan shouting "Communist!" at me and drooling.

You can find a copy of the proposal here:

http://www.thetransitioner.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=VentureCommunism

However, if you are looking for something established, then take a look
at Henry George and Land Value Taxation, a good place to start is
http://www.progress.org

>  The USSR did
> that and one of the results was overcrowding and multi-year waiting
lists
> for apartments.  The nomenklatura, of course, found ways to get
around
> that.

Yup, that is the folly of the so-called "planned economy."

I lived in one of those apartments, but only until I was five, then I
moved to Toronto, Canada, where occupancy rates are usually bellow 1%
and homelessness looms as a never ending crisis.

The choice between Centralist bungling and patronage or Private greed
and patronage is simply too narrow for me. That is why I am an
Anarchist, it is privilege itself that must be eliminated, and the
State is the apparatus of privilege.

> If there were a public will to achieve such an end, I think we are a
> wealthy enough society to do it.

I agree, but do not have much hope that it will be achieved via "public
will" since I believe that the State is the tool of the elite. That is
why I suggest a syndicalist approach to mutualizing Ricardian Rents.

Regards,
Dmytri Kleiner