dubmeup wrote:
Guevarista wrote:
This is an essential process, we apply the consciousness of the present to the examples of the past, let's take Santayana's adage "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." as a motto perhaps in this endeavour and build on past experience with the tools of the now?
Agreed 100%. We have seen how genuine ideas can be corrupted so many times. It'd be stupid not to take thoselessons into consideration. It would also be stupid not to take the genuine ideas our ancestors had into consideration.

There'd be a lot to learn from cultures such as Native North Americans for example who I don't think used currency prior to the Europeans arriving.
In relation to social infrastructure it might be interesting to look at the "squatting" laws?
Could you expand on that please? I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.
Well taking ownership of land, but also property for the common good, to fulfill need, have people tried it, yes, squatters we could see whether there is any potential in the practice?
It would also be interesting perhaps to study Revolutionary Russia or China in this regard, though these were authoritarian states, they had to go through the transition we are proposing here, and the re-distribution of private property, we can assess their success and failings?
Maybe there are other examples where people have assumed control of resources and distributed according to need?
I think if we list a few examples we can study that might be a worthwhile community activity for us to engage in?
RE Native Americans, I definitely agree that we should take a multicultural approach to this question.