PEN-L message, Re: Venture Communism

In a message dated 7/16/2004 3:50:55 AM Central Standard Time, dk@xxxxxxxx writes:

The Venture Communist is a Public Entrepreneur, Venture Communism is not a political model, but rather it is a transitional tactic
designed to promote an equitable distribution of wealth via the
enterprising initiates of communities, rather than through the
central authority of the state.

Venture Communism is an alternative Revolutionary Strategy to Violent
Revolution, one that preserves existing social accumulation rather
than destroying it.

Comment

Venture Communism would face several real world obstacles that are economic and social in my opinion. This is not to say I am against socially responsible investments . . . with "socially responsible" increasing defined on the basis of protecting the metabolic process of the earth and women as priority one.

Nor am I opposed to various projects seeking to link the less developed areas into the world distribution networks on the basis of low to zero cost communications networks based on "localized" energy grids earth friendly.

An economic block to venture communism or a challenge . . . dependening on ones view, is consumption. That is to say there is a little over six billion people in the world and roughly 4 billion live on a couple of dollars a day and less. The venture communist fund would need some kind of system of "sovereign credit" for four billion people that allows them to consume the products being funded and produced by the venture communist fund. That is to say human beings must have a way to enter the exchange market and a system of "sovereign credit" means at birth one has an inalienable right to access the system or some form of modern communism identified with the writings and doctrine of Karl Marx.

All the economic data I have read over the past period of my life speaks of the technological revolution ousting increasing large masses of labor from the production process as fewer and fewer hands are need to produce a previous mass of goods. In fact the venture communism proposal is predicated on a vision of the expanding capacity of production. Everyone runs into certain economic laws that have become barriers to drawing four of the six billion people on earth into the modern system of production and exchange.

This means how is this going to help the lowest 30% of the American workers?

Without question there is no need for the state to be a property holder in America or serves as central authority of production and distribution.

Whether or not the social revolution gives rise to violent political revolution really depends upon the ruling class. If American history is to be used as a framework one must ask why the slave oligarchy refused the offer to be compensated - bought out, to end slavery. Why did the slave oligarchy refuse to be bought out as a transition program to end slavery?

I do not advocate a program of violent change in America and urge the bourgeoisie to stop beating up demonstrators and protesters . . . but strongly believe that if you are shot at you must shoot back.

Actually venture communism is what was attempted in the old Soviet Union during the entire decade of the 1980s . . . in my opinion.

Melvin P.