Some questions

[TheWhiteStreak]

1. How do you think common ownership of land would work with a place to live? Would someone simply be able to walk into, I guess you would call it a house, that you're sleeping in to sleep there as well? I'm not trying to keep anybody out but it might be a little awkward to wake up to someone who wasn't there when you went to bed lol. So, I guess, how do you think living conditions would work in a society with common ownership of land?

2. Do all leftist groups agree on Gift Economy and Direct Democracy? For the most part I've seen most people on here agree with it.

2a. If the answer to question two is no, what's the Marxist opinion on a Gift Economy and Direct Democracy?

3. In a Gift Economy everything would be pretty much open to the people I'm guessing. But I've always wondered, what about supplies that were dangerous? Or hazardous? Also, what about weapons? I thought about what if they made it so anything toxic or dangerous, like chemicals and such, should have paperwork that has to be signed in order to receive the chemical or dangerous item. That way if used in the wrong manner the person who did it could easily be tracked down. And on guns, this is my opinion, I feel like they should only be used/created/handed out at necessary times. Like for hunters to hunt, for policing units in the most extreme cases, or for military when necessary. This, in my opinion would make things much safer. But I'd like to hear your opinions on these things.

Also, if you have any literature or have links that would help me answer my questions, then send 'em my way! And thanks! :)

[The Stalinator]

To answer part of #1: Your house is personal property, not private property. You can own your own house, but you can't own anyone else's house, or make people pay you by the month to live anywhere.

I'm rather new to the ideas of gift economy/direct democracy, so I can't help you out there.

[Dave B]

In the sense that labour performed gratis and its products is a 'gift economy'




V. I. Lenin, From the Destruction of the Old Social System, To the Creation of the New




Communist labour in the narrower and stricter sense of the term is labour performed gratis for the benefit of society, labour performed not as a definite duty, not for the purpose of obtaining a right to certain products, not according to previously established and legally fixed quotas, but voluntary labour, irrespective of quotas;

it is labour performed without expectation of reward, without reward as a condition, labour performed because it has become a habit to work for the common good, and because of a conscious realisation (that has become a habit) of the necessity of working for the common good—labour as the requirement of a healthy organism.

It must be clear to everybody that we, i.e., our society, our social system, are still a very long way from the application of this form of labour on a broad, really mass scale.


But the very fact that this question has been raised, and raised both by the whole of the advanced proletariat (the Communist Party and the trade unions) and by the state authorities, is a step in this direction.


http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/apr/11.htm