Re: [ox-en] Re: No-trade society

• From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
• Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:45:30 +0100

Hi list!

2 weeks (18 days) ago Casimir Purzelbaum wrote:

But I would say that "FreeSoftware economy *today* is
*indirectly* dependent on the 'main' money-based capitalist
economy"...

(No matter where the active FS-supporters get their money from,
they do need it; in other words: today, a most significant part
of the "material" basis of human life is produced in a capitalist
way and can therefor only be "accessed in a capitalist way", i.e.
"bought".)

Well, it very much depends on how you look at it. Pre-capitalist
society depended on the use of the ground. Because capitalism also
depends on ground is capitalism completely based on theses
pre-capitalist *societies*? Of course not. From its very start
capitalism - or money based economy if you want - had its own logic.

When capitalism was a germ form it was unable to reproduce the whole
of society - no germ form is able to do that I'd like to add. In this
way capitalism depended as much on feudal societies as Free Software
depends on capitalism: Capitalism is a pre-requisite to its existence
as long as it is still a germ form. However, its logic does not depend
on capitalism but is a new invention (at least on this scale and in
this particular way).


						Mit Freien Grüßen

						Stefan

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  • Re: [ox-en] Re: No-trade society (was: Re: herrschaft)
    • From: Casimir Purzelbaum

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