Should elimination of private property be the ultimate goal of revolution?

[BurtWorm]

Or should I post another Falwell thread?

[seabeyond]

1. elimination of private property

no

[madrchsod]

2. falwell

i haven`t read one yet...

[catmandu57]

3. No

Not the total elimination, but a cap somewhere, as long as there are hungry, homeless, out of work, out of hope americans, nobody should have so much as to cause the despair the unequal distribution of wealth brings.

[Tyler Durden]

4. "All your private property is target for your enemy,"

"And your enemy--is WE..."

Volunteers of America, Grace Slick/Paul Kantner

[Demit]

5. No. I just redid my kitchen, finally, and it's MINE.

[aeolian]

6. No.

Private property creates a separation between people and the state.

Imagine emminent domain extended to every inch of land and every object: If the Gov't wants to move you, they move you, 'cause you don't own that land. Goodbye house, goodbye car, goodbye various knick-knacks that you think you own, 'cause they're the government's now.
Let's aim for a small government, shall we?

[charlie]

7. Elimination of Falwell

A worthy goal.

[Bunny]

8. Should elimination of Jerry Falwell be the ultimate goal of revolution?

Or should I finish eating this chocolate Easter bunny sitting on my desk?


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/bunnyjohn/chocobunny.bmp



I took his head off at lunchtime, poor bastard.

[BurtWorm]

10. Now that you've decapitated it, I see no reason to let it waste away.

(You did check if it WANTED to be eaten rather than kept in a persistent decapitated state, right?)

[Bunny]

12. Oh, I've got the signed Living Will right here on my desk.

No need for a candlelight vigil or anything. But I think I'll save the rest of him for tomorrow.

[Just Me]

9. I'd argue that the destruction of the corporation should be the,...

,...ultimate goal of our revolution.

[rman]

11. Make that "elimination of limitless aggregation of private property",

then i'm with you.

The problem isn't in (private) wealth as such, the problem is in the disproportionate distribution thereof.

It's like the government: there's a lot that's wrong with it, but doing away with government all together isn't necessary, it just needs to be fixed.

[Sandpiper]

16. What about private ownership of natural resources

Like fossil fuels, water, etc.?


That's probably my biggest beef with private property.

[rman]

26. In my view those are "commons",

like the air, the water, the land. "Not for sale" on those things should be in the Constitution.

[Toucano]

13. What revolution?

There's a revolution?

WHY WASN'T I INFORMED OF THIS?

You go now!

[BurtWorm]

22. It's the Falwell Revolution.

:hide:

[mmonk]

14. No

Private property is essential to freedom. You might not be totally free with property rights but without property rights, you're definitely not free.

[Sandpiper]

15. The end of Coporate Personhood should be the ultimate goal

That's my two cents anyway.

[mmonk]

18. therein lies the imbalance

[Walt Starr]

17. You can have MY property

after you pry my gun from my cold dead hand!

[queeg]

19. WTF----get a rope we got a commie

[Redstone]

20. Yeah, sure, why not? It worked so well in Russia

and all the other communist countries, didn't it?

Redstone

[iconoclastNYC]

21. No just fair taxation: Rich should pay thier fair share.

If you make 10 million and you net 2 million after taxes you still are still 1000x better off the the average person, and you are still rich.

[skip fox]

23. It's certainly a way to get your name on some lists!

I mean "some more lists."

:toast:

(Did you mean Foulwell?)

[BurtWorm]

25. Just trying to elevate the discourse in GD a skoash

Doesn't look like I succeeded. ;)

:toast: (I'll drink to that, Skipper!)

[Trillo]

24. Does the definition of Private Property include

my own body and what's within it?
What's within my cells, such as DNA?
What chemicals are in my blood?

Corporations have exploited these very private personal things for their own gain, while government has enabled them: I claim they've done so at my 'expense.'

Vast databases have been created, and except for a news report once in awhile of their security being compromised from time to time, the contents of these private databases I can only imagine. Is it unlimited? I read that this data is sometimes sold, but where's my portion of the income from that sale?

Where and what exactly is 'private property?'

Do I own my own body? Where in the law does it say this explicitly?

[Zorra]

27. The ultimate goal of revolution should be exclusive democratic control

of a government by the people. Kind of like the US tried before corporations took over the government.

Eliminate private property?

Yuh. Uh-huh. Sure, that'll work. It could happen.

Just look at the unbridled success of the Soviet Union. I mean, er, the former Soviet Union.
:sarcasm:

Rather than eliminate private property, it is far better, IMO, to prevent those who amass large amounts of private property from using their property to gain control of a government.