⛰️Partial Common Ownership

Geoautonomy, the pre-cursor to Anarcho-Monarchism, the rhizome of post-capitalism — begins with the imaginal archetype “Each of Us Own Half the Map”, that (1) people have full inalienable rights to themselves and that (2) all people have an equal right to land and things of value provided by nature. This post-capitalist starting is better than the “neoliberal” one. From this perspective, the Earth is a common inheritance, and all individuals have an equal right to access its natural resources. Geoautonomy is strongly influenced by the ideas of Henry George, Max Stirner, and Proudhon, but is not identical to them. Those of us with a post-capitalist rhizome must respond to concerns of right-libertarians, who agree with post-capitalists, that people have inalienable rights to themselves but assert, contrary, that, land can be fully privately owned as any other good.

The Right to Selves

The first half of Geoautonomy is that people have inalienable rights to themselves. We do not say, as people, such as Rothbard do, that people own themselves, because that might suggest that they could sell themselves if they wished, since one can generally sell what one owns. If people were able to sell themselves, then there would be people who, having sold themselves, did not have rights to themselves. People can represent/commoditise/alienate their labor services, but not their rights to the future exercise of their wills, they can make promises and put their capital or labor behind those promises, but they cannot justly be deprived of their own autonomy or have their bodies assaulted for having broken their promises.

Those who count within the first half of Geoautonomy are those with whom we can have intelligent conversations (through translators, by sign language or blinking an eye if necessary), in which we can reasonably rely on them to mean what they say. The necessary condition, is to be eloquent, persuasive, convincing and significant, having the reached the highest peak of puberty, whilst also being sound of mind, intellect and judgement. People who cannot pass this criteria, such as immature children, feeble-minded persons, insane persons, those temporarily disabled by alcohol, and those who are senile, do not possess inalienable rights to themselves, though they still possess the second half of Geoautonomy, which is equal right to all land and its natural resources.

Equal Rights to All Land

The second half of Geoautonomy, is that all people on Earth have equal rights to all land — and things of value provided by Nature. These are not rights of private ownership in perpetuity, but rather the rights to use or a ‘mutualism usufruct’, while one is alive, to the use of opportunities that are provided by Land and Nature. There are several forms equal rights can take, but the primary form is creating a competitive market in uses through Partial Common Ownership.

Partial Common Ownership — also known as SALSA (Self-Assessed Licenses Sold Via Auction) — is a new way of managing assets that is fairer and more efficient than those under Neoliberal Capitalism or Communism. SALSA alleviates the Land economy from the “monopoly problem” — that inhibits enslaved land from flowing to their best use. SALSA would create a Wild Market for land, where land belongs to no one and everyone, a Wild Market that emphasises use over ownership.