Saturday, August 06, 2005

Property.

I think that any-one still referring to themselves as a Communist or a Capitalist is living in the past. The increasing mechanisation of industry is making worker solidarity moribund. We can't all work in service industries, can we? So, what's left? Mass unemployment? That seems to be the road we're headed down.

I heard a man on the radio saying that it wasn't the state's responsibility to provide for the people. Oh? Who is it that enforces the system that allows ownership, and provides checks that are intended to see that no-one need starve (as long as they live with-in that states borders, at any rate)? What are states foe exactly? Defence and justice, surely.

The old systems seem ill equiped to cope with a world that will require only a small percentage of the population to toil fulltime (if this is what actually comes to pass) and I think most humans need to work in order to stay healthy.

We need new solutions.

Treatises on the back of a postcard. Tyrannies need not apply.

I think I'll explore the issue in a work of fiction. Yup, that'll be a hot item at Waterstones...