Basic society

Two cave men live side by side. Life is hard, food , survival.


They have to dedicate their efforts to looking after their personal needs but also looking for chances to exploit their neighbour to gain advantage. They do this because their very survival is under threat. They are scared and feel insecure. Also they must dedicate their time to defence, as their neighbour will try to exploit them.

Lets introduce a 3rd cave man. He is dominant, and has a strong sense of justice. He stamps out the exploitation and the need for defence as he imposes his own sense “fairness” on the group, however has to take on these extra roles in additional to his own survival.

By now introducing a ‘system’ including collective and collaborative working into the equation, we can make the basic survival easier. Whist the mis-trust still exists there will still be a need for ‘Boss’ caveman to rule. How do we then dissolve away the mis trust, remove the need for defence and the desire for exploitation, and advantage.

We need to illustrate the huge gains made by collectivisation shared by all.

These gains must far outweigh the temporary petty gains made by cheating, or the effort used defending themselves. Then surely the path forward will be quite natural and obvious. No envy, greed, need for competition, but a real passion about improving society for all. We have complete trust that your neighbour’s actions is for the common good, therefore good for you. The question is when are we ready to make this leap to a high state of social consciousness. This is I believe what Marx termed as true communism, and the disbanding of the dictatorship of the proletariat. If we are not ready to make this leap then the first signs of rot will be quickly evident. We can paper of the cracks by imposing rules and systems but we must ask why is this necessary?