Reply To: Words
I suppose it is interesting in that ‘own’ and ownership implies some kind of exclusive control or access to wealth etc.
In fact own and thus ownership implies individual or personal , of one, control.
That would be a Stirner like interpretation.
Thus common ownership would be an oxymoron like; true lies.
Thus due to the evolution and standardisation of private property concepts over the last 500 years there isn’t a modern word for such an alien thing as useful stuff that doesn’t have an owner or ownership, collective or otherwise.
Thus with multinational companies they are commonly owned by the shareholders,
The old English word for it was ‘commons’ ; thus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
As I understand it that is all derived from , like communism , from the Greek word ‘communicate’ which is similar but begins with a K.
And sort of had ‘double’ meaning of to ‘talk etc’ and to share; as in share knowledge and information or whatever.
It crops up in early Christian literature translated into English.
Rightwing christian translators liked to obscure what was being said about sharing; by translating it as ‘communication’ and giving it an obscure theological take of ‘communion’ etc.
It looks to me as our friend Roman Montero with his little book; which he tested the ground on by going onto Libcom , with me and then here.
Has shifted the debate somewhat and had an impact given the change of content google searches.
Montero, Roman A. (2017). All Things in Common The Economic Practices of the Early Christians. Foster, Edgar G. Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 9781532607912. OCLC 994706026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_communism
I have noticed the change as people know; I have been interested in that subject for sometime.
I think it has a like Ludwig Wittgenstein aspect to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
[He was interested in planes and flying and used to hangout in a favourite pub of mine in the peak district.]
I mean how can you think things through using language, which you have to, if you don’t have sensible clear cut words for ideas or concepts.
Or for that matter 1984 in which dangerous ideology was dealt with by deleting words from language that were subversive.
Socialism itself was a word originated by a French bod just as an antonym to egotism or selfishness.
I think the North American ‘Indians’ thought the colonist were insane when they offered to buy the ‘commons’ of Dakota or whatever.