{"id":3172,"date":"2021-05-24T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:37:46","slug":"free-access-to-subsistence-land-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/24\/free-access-to-subsistence-land-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Access to Subsistence Land = Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIf Socialism is to be viewed as the antithesis of Capitalism, then the following must serve as foundational axioms of each. Socialism is a political system which allows (i.e., gives a right to a) free access to subsistence land. Capitalism is a political system which does not allow (i.e., forbids) a free access to subsistence land.\n<p><\/p><p>\nWhy is this important? Because human beings are animals, and all animals must eat to live. And all animals get their food from their environment, as do all foraging human beings and those who have learned to cultivate their source of food. But with the establishment of States and industrial production, humans have been driven into cities, which Desmond Morris, in the following video views as Human Zoos.<\/p><p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wlGhIh1lfE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>\nWhether such laws allowing or denying free access to subsistence land are enacted by a single individual (a monarch, a dictator, a president, a prime minister) or a group (a parliament, a congress, a council) is irrelevant. \n<\/p><p>\nHow power is exercised (i.e., who grants or denies this right) is a different question from whether you are granted this right or not. And one answer to this question of power is given by the word &#8220;democracy.&#8221; But I distinguish Mass Democracy in which thousands and millions vote for some official (as is practically a universal political practice), from Micro Democracy where the units of government are about 150 voters. A federated Micro Democracy is the ideal of theoretical Anarchism (as expounded, for example, in Proudhon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/proudhon\/federation\/federation.html\"><i>The principle of federation<\/i><\/a>, 1863.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Socialism is to be viewed as the antithesis of Capitalism, then the following must serve as foundational axioms of each. Socialism is a political system which allows (i.e., gives a right to a) free access to subsistence land. Capitalism is a political system which does not allow (i.e., forbids) a free access to subsistence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/24\/free-access-to-subsistence-land-socialism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free Access to Subsistence Land = Socialism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,49,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","category-capitalism","category-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}