if as I have explained that desire for property isn’t innate or we are born with…
then what explains our desire for private property?
just as we created the need for god over the millions years of our existence as
a need for some sort of protection from the forces which threaten to harm us,
we have the need for property as a need to protect us from forces that threaten
to harm us…and as we discover other factors which allows us to justify property…
the need for property justify our political and economic status…capitalism is justified
for its example of gaining property and for no other reason…certainly not for any
supposed improvement of the human condition…
the owning of property might also create some sort of immunity from the daily threats of nature
and man and government but it doesn’t…
in other words, the creation of private property is simply a solution to a problem and as
private property no longer solves that problem, private property is no longer a viable solution…
in fact, I would suggest that private property at this stage of our development creates more
problems then it solves and that is the key… we must change and adapt to our stage of
development and that means we must no longer fixate on old solutions for new problems…
we must adapt and change to the changing environment… which today means
we have billions of people more then the earth can support and we have an economic system
that accelerates that idea that we have more people then resources… we have pollution
and global warming along with a unsustainable population growth… the answer is not
private property given the issues facing us and indeed private property increases our
current problems and thus is not a viable solution…
we must think in terms of sustainable growth and sustainable understanding of the
world… we can no longer afford private property in this day and age…
we must find new solutions to new problems and that means
we no longer find reliance on old ideas like god and private property…
we must solve new problems with new idea’s…
and what new idea’s do you offer?
Kropotkin