Kolonisering

[exterminate]

Hvordan tror du at de ulike verdensdelene hadde vært om det ikke fantes noe som het kolonisering? Om ingen hadde tatt utnytte av andres ressurser?

[cowboy bob]

vi hadde levd som hulemenn, eller i primitive bygninger knapt et steg over urtilstanden.

[Skatteflyktning]

Om ingen hadde tatt utnytte av andres ressurser?

 

"There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtain the necessary means for satisfying his desires. These are work and robbery, one's own labor and the forcible appropriation of the labor of others. Robbery! Forcible appropriation! These words convey to us ideas of crime and the penitentiary, since we are the contemporaries of a developed civilization, specifically based on the inviolability of property. And this tang is not lost when we are convinced that land and sea robbery is the primitive relation of life, just as the warrior's trade - which also for a long time is only organized mass robbery - constitutes the most respected of occupations. Both because of this, and also on account of the need of having, in the further development of this study, terse, clear, sharply opposing terms for these very important contrasts, I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the “economic means" for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the "political means."

Franz Oppenheimer, The State

http://www.franz-oppenheimer.de/state0.htm

[tom waits for alice]

Hadde vi ikke kunnet forsyne oss fritt av andres ressurser måtte vi betalt dem for dem. Det hadde gitt dem økonomi til å utvikle egen velstand tidligere.

 

Geir