Re: BHA: causal bearers in the social world

[Mervyn Hartwig <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dick

>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.

Of course.

Mervyn


Richard Moodey <moodey001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>Hi Mervyn,
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>At 11:10 PM 05/08/2002 +0100, you wrote:
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>>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?
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>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.
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>Regards,
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>Dick
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