“A great number of the inhabitants of the cities will have to become agriculturists. Nor in the same manner of the present peasants who wear themselves out, ploughing for a wage that barely provides them with sufficient food for the year, but by following the principles of intensive agriculture, of the market gardeners, applied on a large scale by means of the best machinery that man has invented or can invent.”
prince K
no non food plot based urban comune
can meet prince K's exacting
self reliance/self sufficiency criterion
its exchanges with the greater society are essential to the communes survival
if the commune by its own efforts
can not provide food enough for itself
once interdep[endent on a larrge network of market mediated production units
the commune quickly arrives at a spontaneous truth of markets
the desireable equal value outcome of the liberal play of transactions
is violated on all sides in time
and that dismal fact
draws the membership one by three at least in their minds
out into the commercial world at large
and that move at once ends the existence of the stateless community
despite princeK's clever formulations and sifted set of counter examples
the market centered society is simply engaged in "
the war of all against all" by other means
once out there exchanging and transacting
the communards are never to return to their intentional eden
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NOW THE PRINCE K FALSE IF BEAUTIFUL HOPEFULLNESS ...
Trade Decentralization
“The tendency of trade, as for all else, is toward decentralization. Every nation finds it advantageous to combine agriculture with the greatest possible variety of factories. The specialization of which economists spoke so highly certainly has enriched a number of capitalists, but is now no longer of any use. On the contrary, it is to the advantage of every region, every nation, to grow their own wheat, their own vegetables, and to manufacture at home most of the produce they consume. This diversity is the surest pledge of the complete development of production by mutual cooperation, and the moving cause of progress, while specialization is now a hindrance to progress.” prince K
World-exchange
"The present tendency of economical development in the world is ... to induce more and more every nation, or rather every region, taken in its geographical sense, to rely chiefly upon a home production of all the chief necessaries of life. Not to reduce, I mean, the world-exchange: it may still grow in bulk; but to limit it to the exchange of what really
must be exchanged, and, at the same time, immensely to increase the exchange of novelties, produce of local or national art, new discoveries and inventions, knowledge and ideas."
