Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Camping Trips and Socialism Society

Having just returned from a flyfishing/camping trip, I found this article, Can Society Be Organized Like a Camping Trip?, which was written by David Gordon, addressing G.A. Cohen’s musings on the moral desirability of Socialism and his use of a theoretical camping trip in support of his musing.  From Gordon’s piece.

In Why Not Socialism? Cohen explains in a clear and accessible way why he thinks that socialism is morally desirable. In doing so, though, he leaves himself open to a challenge, and of this he is fully aware. Even if he could demonstrate that socialism is a morally superior system to capitalism, it might turn ought that socialism is impossible to establish. He endeavors to meet the difficulty but, as we shall see, he fails adequately to confront the principal reason that would derail a socialist economy.

I will state that though there are aspects about camping which are communal in nature, at my trout camp, I always set the rules.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/28 at 08:28 AM
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