Hey all -

Some food for thought. When the currencies of the East European countries
"collapsed", all kinds of ad hoc arrangements were made to compensate. Any
thoughts about what the experience taught ?

Also, in the USSR, at least, there were at least formal worker's councils
in place that might have had the potential to become basic forms in an
anarcho-syndicalist society. Why didn't this happen?

Despite appearances, I'm not just being mischievous; I am actually plagued
with questions like this.

- Don DeBar

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> From: Ernie Yacub <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Banking, Economics, and Equity
> Date: Thursday, May 08, 1997 6:23 AM
>
> >On Tue, 6 May 1997, John Wilmerding wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 5 May 1997, Harry Veeder wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am still trying to clarify the idea of democratic banking.
> >>
> >> How about equitableness in economics & the distribution of wealth?
> >> Distributive justice?
> >>
> >
> >The funny thing is, we already have an excellent mechanism for
> >distributing wealth-- free enterprise. The problem is many people don't
have
> >the money to simply acquire some of that wealth. A business will give
the
> >consumer what they want if the consumer gives them some money in return.
> >There is no need for the government to intercede by taxing people or
tell
> >the consumer want it is they need, if a money-system was devised to
> >create and give a certain amount of *spending* money to each consumer.
>
>
> harry, how about an abundant, interest-free money that always comes home?
>
> so that wealth is determined, not by accumulation of property, but by how
> much trading you did in your communities...think potlatch.
>
> communities are plural because we are active in numerous, discreet
> communities...eg. family, village, tribe, neighborhood, city, region,
> church, club, italian, jewish, etc...each can have its own currency and
> each of us can chose which currencies to use.
>
> including partial payment in conventional dollars...you decide through
> negotiation for mutual benefit.
>
>
> ernie