Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "Christian CoHousing"

[Robert Schrader (rms]

At 10:28 AM 9/5/97 -0500, Scott Crowley wrote:

{snip}
>Cohousing is...{snip} ...especially an attempt to create a Humanizing
>force at a neighborhood level which evolves away from the
>the existing capitalist system (a system which continues to embrace
>war and christian religion as vehicles to enforce its principles of
>waste and exploitation) 


"Principles of waste and exploitation"?  Sorry, Scott, but you really ought
to check a dictionary.  Capitalism has, by definition, one principle, that
is: private ownership of capital.

Capitalism has no interest in war.  War is bad for markets.  It destroys
property.  A true capitalist is opposed to war except in self defense.

Most of the wars that are blamed on capitalism are actually the actions of
socialistic regimes ( Socialism: _government_ ownership of property ).  Only
when the government has an interest in aquisition of others' property does
it take an interest in wars of conquest.


>As always, we must fight to avoid sinking to our lowest common denominator: An
>idyllic, gated golf course community of like-minded, well-off American
isolationists.


Hey, I kinda like this.  Well... maybe a volleyball court instead of a golf
course, but otherwise it sounds pretty good to me.

RS



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