law and libertarian communism
Apr 16 2008 17:07
Can anyone recommend any texts about 'law'-making, dealing with antisocial behavior etc in a libertarian communist society?
Apr 17 2008 09:59
#2
probably in a communist society there will less antisocial behavior....if there will be...
The same for psychological diseases and all those human problems ultimly rooted in any class society....
Apr 17 2008 12:36
#3
2 classic cop - outs there.
Well done chaps, you've got my vote! I'm SURE it'll be alright on the night, who needs any more assurance than that? 
Apr 17 2008 14:40
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They could go anywhere else, but not the community where they did whatever they did.
Yeah! Fuck any other community then! @Narchy rockz!!!
Why not just have laws and punishments and stuff? But have them enforced by mandated, rotated, and recallable delegates from free communities?
Apr 17 2008 22:27
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Why not just have laws and punishments and stuff? But have them enforced by mandated, rotated, and recallable delegates from free communities?
Well this is what I had in mind personally, though I think 'laws' brought about in this manner are largely incomparable with 'laws' in a bourgeois society. Their class function makes them a completely different thing. But then there are questions of what forms punishment takes, whether there are binding laws or whether the degree of antisocial behavior itself should be measured, whether we use restorative justice, how we collectively decide what constitutes antisocial befaviour etc.
I think that without private property and a class society much of what is understood as 'crime' would not be necessary or applicable, but nonetheless people will do bad things to one another. Its utopian to assume such behavior will completely disappear, people are far too complicated for that. And besides, revolution is a process, the mindsets of a capitalist society and its patterns of behavior will live on in a revolutionary period and will have to be dealt with.
I'd be interested to know how such problems were dealt with during the Spanish revolution, or in Zapatista territory now. I remember reading in Anarchism by Guerin some horrendous comment about how some comrade who felt an "excess of passions" for a female comrade (i.e., raped her) would be temporarily ostracised by the community, but it was a while ago.
I believe ostracism (sp?) is a common remedy suggested. But I doubt that would work too well for everything. I like the idea of giving them a farm out of the way of everybody and telling them to stay there and not come back. They could go anywhere else, but not the community where they did whatever they did.