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| 22001 | The real will of the cooperative will replace the 'will of the people' |
| Full Idea: Under collective property, the so called will of the people disappears in order to make way for the real will of the cooperative. | |||
| From: Karl Marx (Grundrisse [1876], p.563), quoted by Peter Singer - Marx 10 | |||
| A reaction: [from an 1874 note on Bakunin's 'Statism and Anarchy'] So how do you settle on the 'real' will of a cooperative? The travesty is when a ruling elite decide that, without consultation. An institution is needed. This is still a social contract. |