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Just the first line raises so many basic social questions:
Do all the workers who contributed to the building of the home own it? If so, do they all get to live in it? If not, must they then communally determine who lives in it? How would that be organized? Majority opinion? A reversion to primitive village social structures? What's the purpose of supposing they get a minimum wage? What does it change about their contribution if they were highly paid by the owner? If you admit that their labor was commoditized to build the house, and they were compensated by the owner according to the socially agreed value of their work, then what does it matter if the owner didn't build it and why does that prevent the owner from claiming it as his private property? What if the owner overpaid them - i.e paid each the amount it would cost to commission laborers to build their own similar home? Are they then self-exploiting if they use the money their labor earned to buy the labor of others to build homes?
Most of your questions are answered in the chapter I linked. It's a good read, check it out. Obviously, the whole ordeal Kropotkin describes would require ingenuity, and patience, and M U T U A L A I D.
99% of questions about libsoc theory were asked and answered 100 years ago in that one book alone haha
If by "ingenuity and patience" you mean divine intervention, maybe. What he describes is spontaneous abolition of rent followed by well-meaning volunteers creating statistics for use in a program that would determine who gets to live in what house. It's laden with romantic claims about the selflessness and infallibility of the masses, and a rosy view of the Paris Commune typical of the times.
I see you're not actually interested in exploring these ideas, just insisting they won't work with bad faith questions.
People like you are why landlords still exist.
Bad faith questions like "why does Kropotkin assume what he assumes." Sure. You're like a religious zealot, dodging around the tough questions deservedly asked of your text and blaming naysayers for the evil in the world.
It's pretty apparent your questions aren't in good faith, or you wouldn't be so combative. It's clear you're not actually interested in answers, just in getting a "gotcha," which is pretty lame. Also, I wouldn't call any of the questions you've asked actually tough, because they're almost all the first, second, or third questions he typically answers in the book. They're fair questions, for sure, but they're the ones Kropotkin anticipates while you're reading, which is part of the fun of reading Kropotkin.
Then you go on to completely mischaracterize his view of the Paris Commune based on a single chapter of his book, while also insulting people who call you out. It's totally cool if you disagree and don't like Kropotkin's ideas -- I mean the dude wasn't right about everything. But you're just being a dick about it, sorry to say.
If you don't like "combative" questions about your prescriptions for the entire social structure of the world, then do us all a favor and stop interacting with people who have an iota of skepticism towards them. Stick to your own bubble instead of moralizing about how we wouldn't have landlords if people would just stop challenging you. And no, Kropotkin doesn't answer what I asked regarding the organization of housing. He quite literally just claims that workers are inherently unselfish and "volunteers" will rationally alot it according to need.
Look at how upset you are! lmao. bro we're in political memes, take a chill pill.
Not the one weiting paragraphs calling people dicks dude. Take your own advice.
Happily -- I hope you have a great day:)) thanks for engaging, I'll see you when the great appropriation occurs
If you actually read the book, you'd know how silly most of the things you just said are, especially about the Paris Commune. But I appreciate you sharing your opinion :)
edit: btw, its called conquest of bread. good stuff, check it out. you dont need to agree with it, but its a great intro to learning about some of the moral philosophies behind anarchy and communism and why they surged in the late 19th and early 20th century
I know its name and I read it years ago. It's filled with silly propositions. And what I said about the Pairs Commune is actually uncontroversial. It was in fact greatly romaniticized by Europe's dissident left.