. ' A.B.C. OF ANARCHISM in the things you use. Thus, your watch is your own, but the watch factory belongs to the.people, land, machinery, and all other publ~c utilitiei will be collective property, neither to be bought nor sold. Actual use will be considered the only title-not to ownership but to possession. The organisation of the coal miners, for example, will be in charge of the coal mines, not as owners but ,as the operating agency. Similarly will the railroad brotherhoods run the railroads, and so on. Collective possession, co-operatively managed in the interests 0f the community, will take the place of·personal ownership privately conducted for profit. " But if you can't buy anything, then what's the use of money?" you ask. None whatever; money becomes useless. You can't get anr thing for it. When the sources of supply, the land, factories, and products become public property, socialised, you can neither buy nor sell. As money is only a medium for such transactions, it loses its usefulnw. · · " But how will you exchange thi11gs?" Exchange will be free. The coal miners, for instance, will deliver the coal they mined to the public yards for the use of the community. In their turn the miners will receive from the community's warehouses the machinery, tools, and the other commodities they need. That means free eJCchangewithout the medium of money and without profit, on the basis of requirement and the supply on hand. / · "But if there is no machinery or food to be given to the miners? " If there is none, money will not help matters. The miners couldn't feed on banknotes. Consider how such things are managed to-day. You trade coal for money, and for the money you get food. The free community we are speaking of will exchange the coal for the food directly, without the medium of money. " But on what basis? To-day you know what a dollar is worth, more or loss,but how much coal will you give for a sack of flour ? " You mean, how will value or price be d1:termined. But we have seen already in preceding chapters that there is no real measure of value, and that price depends on supply and demand and varies aocordingly. The price of coal rises if there is a scarcity of it; it becomes cheaper if t~e _supply is greater than the demand. To make bigger profits the coal owners artificially limit the output, and the same methods obtain throughout the capitalistic system. With the abolition ·_of capitalism no one will .be interested in raising the price of coal or limiting its supply. As much coa1will be mined as will be necessary to satisfy the need. Similarly will as much food 84 81bhoteca G.no Bianco
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