Re: <nettime> EU == USSR v2.0 ?

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Property is just an opinion, programmed into certain number of human 
brains. It's soft, and can be modified or erased. There is no brain area 
dedicated for private property (witness human societies without it.) 
Using this ephemeral phenomenon to understand underlying dynamics is 
unproductive. Observers from Mars cannot detect property, as they cannot 
detect human gods. But they can detect lifecycles, illnesses, buildings, 
murders, poverty, luxury and such. The worse sleigh of hand done to 
communism was to divert focus to this single soft aspect (remotely 
similar to POTUS pussy grabbing idiocy.)

The basic similarity between USSR and EU is the willingness of large 
number of people, *not* based on religion, leaders, or tribal/national 
identity, to pitch in for the better common* future. Both events are 
unique in the history in this regard.

* note the word root

> How is the EU seizing control of the means of production?  How is the EU
> delegitimising the ownership of private property by private citizens?  When
> last I checked, it was still possible to establish for-profit businesses in the
> EU, and it was still possible for individual EU citizens to purchase goods from
> Ka De We.  To say that the EU model incorporates elements of socialism is one
> thing, to say that it is 'communism' is a bridge too far.
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