Stateless Common Property

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Kevin Carson:

"Carlton Hobbs recently challenged the tendency of mainstream libertarians, free marketers and anarcho-capitalists to favor the capitalist corporation as the primary model of ownership and economic activity, and to assume that any future free market society will be organized on the pattern of corporate capitalism. As one alternative to such forms of organization, Hobbs proposed "stateless common property," with usufructory right possessed by the inhabitants of a given area, coming about "without any prior formal agreements incorporating a potentially imprecise owning group." He gave, as historical examples of such kinds of ownership, public rights of way, or villagers' rights of commons in a field, well or wood. The questions he raised are applicable on a much broader scale."C (http://mutualist.org/id45.html)