I heard an interesting idea

[The Man]

A friend of mine, said that he supports a system in which every single person in a community, would get a small piece of land to grow their own food. Is there an actual ideology that's supports some sort of system like that?

[Amphictyonis]

Feudalism :) Then any surplus would be given over to the king. But seriously, agrarian socialism is what you're thinking of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_socialism

[Jose Gracchus]

Since the earliest parts of the 20th C., in practice this is called "mass starvation."

[Amphictyonis]

Since the earliest parts of the 20th C., in practice this is called "mass starvation."

Bookchin would disagree. He actual advocated a more decentralized form of agriculture. He thought agricultural centralization was a big reason China had periods of starvation. I think he advocated "Libertarian Municipalism".A sort of system where nothing is centralized, not production or political decisions. It's almost like a sort of agrarian socialism. Bookchin has been hard for me to nail down, he was politically squirmish (all over the place) at times.

[Jose Gracchus]

I don't think he advocated a labor-intensive de-industrialized, everyone-participates kind Khmer Rouge agriculture. There's no way to feed the modern industrial population off available cropland by such means.

[Amphictyonis]

I don't think he advocated a labor-intensive de-industrialized, everyone-participates kind Khmer Rouge agriculture. There's no way to feed the modern industrial population off available cropland by such means.
I don't think he even knew what Libertarian Municipalism was ;) (I'm just kidding)

I read his criticisms of a centralized command economy and he had a few valid points. He advocated a sort of federation of autonomous communities- so if one fell (had a crisis/shortage) they would not all be connected in failure as is the case with capitalism and as was the case with the agricultural crisis China had. He focused on decentralization of economy and political structure. Nothing like Pol Pot. You know this :)

[Die Neue Zeit]

It could work in theory, but only if the cities can produce their own food industrially and vertically. At that point, as comrade Ckaihatsu said, everyone growing "their own food" would be for recreational, history-educational, or survival-educational purposes - and nothing else.