ok, we have written about private property, but what
about the other concepts we have written about like justice?
Justice is the act of equality… either bringing someone up to be equal,
like rules that give the handicap equal access that others have or
to treat others equal either politically or legally…
so let us discuss justice and private property…
justice is the act of treating equally and private property is just
the opposite…there are those who can never be able to afford
property in my city and yet others who by no other reason then being
born rich can afford it… I have heard it said, that life isn’t fair…
which is another way of saying life isn’t just… but why not?
what is stopping us from having a just, equal, society?
simple greed would be one answer…also that the fact that
we accept the idea of political equality but we don’t accept the
idea of economic equality… economic justice is no different then
political justice and just as important…we don’t require someone to
accomplish something before we give them political equality…
someone gets political equality by virtue of birth… you get all the rights
and privileges just by being born an American… a privilege offer just
by being born within certain artificial lines… lines that have been changeable
in the past and are easily changed in the future because they don’t really exist…
How can we rationalize political equality without accepting economic equality?
now one may make the argument that by equalizing everyone economically,
we take away their incentive to work… as if work was the thing we live for…
the battle is not to posses material goods or buy a bigger TV… the battle
is to become human… the march in mankind is not in technology or in GDP,
but in becoming better human beings and in creating a better society…
better human being and better society can be one whereas
there is more order and unity and a worse human being and a worse
society is a disorder society and a disorder human being…
the sign of a functional society and a functional human being is
tending toward order and unity… look at functional societies
and functional individuals… they are ordered and have unity
and there is less chaos and randomness…that is a sign of
a functional society and a sign of a functional human being…
Sweden is a far more functional society then Kenya and that is
a sign that there is order and unity in Sweden and more chaos and randomness
in Kenya… look at history… the societies that lasted are the ones that
have more order then disorder… think of systems and systems that
function better are ones that hold their order better… think of a car…
a car that functions better is one that has order and runs when you want it
to run and works the way it supposed to… a disorder car, one that doesn’t run
when you want to and is chaotic is a less functional car…is less likely
to last…order and unity are partly the reason for systems lasting longer…
the reason our cars and our solar system and the human body last
is because there is order and unity… when there is disorder and chaos
and randomness… the system is in danger of failing…be it a car or a body
or a solar system…
justice is a form of order and unity… the amount of justice in a political system
will help decide how long that system, be it Rome or Egypt or China or Sweden,
will decide how long that system will last… because without justice there is
disorder and chaos and randomness in the system…and that will decrease the
length of time a system, a political system for example will last…
so if we allow injustice in the economic system, we increase disorder and chaos
and that threaten the structure of society which means the system may fail…
we must have justice or the system might fail from chaos and randomness
caused by the lack of equality…think of inequality as a scale… put too much
weight on one side and it is no longer in balance and that balance is needed for
any system, be it a car or a solar system or a political or an economic system
to survive…justice and equality and balance are all the same thing…
and all are needed to make a system work, any system…
so we must have political equality as well as economic equality
for our system to work, to be balanced, to last…
private property threatens that balance of equality
and must be addressed…
Kropotkin