Personal and Impersonal Relationships

My starting point is the historical development of forces of production. This term "development of forces of production" describes very generally, how humans produce their lives. It grasps the triangle relationship between humans, means, and nature. Each of these aspects are determining an epoch: first, the "natural" epoch, where humans predominantly produce their lives via developing the ways of cultivating the ground; second, the "industrial" epoch, where humans predominantly produce their lives via developing the means (as tools, machinary, industry, science); third, the "human" epoch, where humans develop themselfs as an end in itself. What we currently observe (my hypothesis), is the transition between second and third epoch.

The historically different types of producing the humans lives evolve in a corresponding societal form. The societal forms are the ways, how humans build relationsships between each other when producing their lives (when they just live). The corresponding forms of the three epochs above are: "natural epoch" with personal-concrete domination (different types of personal domination: slavery, feudal domination etc.); "industrial epoch" with abstract-alienated domination (abstract domination by the impersonal mechanism of making more money from money); "human epoch" - personal-concrete non-dominion form of society.

So the difference is not personal-concrete vs. personal-abstract (I don't know, what this could be), but personal or abstract types of domination - and the free society without domination including a type of societal organisation, which bases on personal relationships. This does not necessarily mean, that "you know each other" (which is impossible), but the cooperation is driven by humans and their goals instead of an abstract impersonal mechanism (what we have in capitalism).

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