Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 11:11:11 -0400
From: Richard Moodey <moodey001-AT-mail1.gannon.edu>
Subject: Re: BHA: causal bearers in the social world


Hi Mervyn,

At 11:10 PM 05/08/2002 +0100, you wrote:

>But perhaps you mean, Would it be possible to divest ourselves of
>master-slave-type relations and end up with something worse? But then we
>wouldn't have divested ourselves of them, would we?

Perhaps a social order without master-slave-type relations could be a form 
of anarchy as well as democracy.  I respect Chomsky, who seems to regard 
anarchism as a kind of libertarian socialism.  Yet, even in this kind of 
social order, there will remain a need for collective decisions.  I cannot 
imagine emancipation persisting without democratic decision-making 
processes.  Other ways of making collective decisions, imo, would restore 
master-slave-type relations, perhaps behind a paternalistic or 
maternalistic facade.

Regards,

Dick









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