Re: BHA: causal bearers in the social world

[Richard Moodey <moodey001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mervyn,

At 11:10 PM 05/08/2002 +0100, you wrote:

> But perhaps you mean, Would it be possible to divest ourselves of
> master-slave-type relations and end up with something worse? But then we
> wouldn't have divested ourselves of them, would we?

Perhaps a social order without master-slave-type relations could be a form
of anarchy as well as democracy.  I respect Chomsky, who seems to regard
anarchism as a kind of libertarian socialism.  Yet, even in this kind of
social order, there will remain a need for collective decisions.  I cannot
imagine emancipation persisting without democratic decision-making
processes.  Other ways of making collective decisions, imo, would restore
master-slave-type relations, perhaps behind a paternalistic or
maternalistic facade.

Regards,

Dick









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