Sunday, June 10, 2018

Private Property, Revolution, Distributed Property

Dialectical Atomism, e. g. Marxism, is less radical with respect to traditional Atomism, e. g. Capitalism, than is Holism.  Thus, Rousseauean Holism is more Revolutionary than Communism.  Now, the former does not abolish Private Property; rather, it transforms it into Distributed Property.  But, Distributed Property is not antithetical to Marxism, in which it is implicit, i. e. as is expressed in Marx's 'to each according to one's needs' formulation.  What it is antithetical to is the unfettered appropriation of land that has established most property claims throughout human history.  Distributed Property is thus a potentially more effective factor in the cultivation of a Holistic political consciousness among the members of a post-revolutionary society than that projected by Marx-Engels in the German Ideology, e. g. their descriptions of post-Division of Labor personal enjoyments.

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