From: jc (jcpryor@nccn.net)
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 06:24:46 BST
At 8:09 AM -0400 8/2/05, Platt Holden wrote:
>
>Your emphasis on lives over "static wealth piles" reveals your agreement
>with the premise penned by the socialist's favorite brujo, Karl Marx --
>"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
>Historically we know what that led to.
But we don't know where it's going from here.
I recently read a book by Erich Fromme about Karl Marx and I was
quite taken by his (Marx's) thinking. I don't think it's fair to
judge him by what the Russians did with communism. Marx's main
bugaboo was what industrial society was gearing up to do to man -turn
him into a commodity machine. Look around you. He was right.
And I'm an avid proponent of dot-communism. The open source software
movement and the linux operating system are excellent examples of
ways in which Marx's maxim can actually work. Human minds freed to
contribute intellectual excellence over the internet and absorb the
same are somewhat analogous, IMO, to electrical current at absolute
zero - the proverbial free lunch. When ideas can flow between us
freely, it is simple and right to give according to our ability and
take according to our needs.
jc
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