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- | production for use instead of for gain. | + | ====householding==== |
- | principle | + | production for use instead |
- | which has nothing in common either with the motive of gain or with the institution | + | |
- | of markets. Its pattern is the closed group: whether the very different entities | + | |
- | of the family or the settlement or the manor formed the self-sufficient unit; | + | |
- | the principle was invariably the same, namely, that of producing and storing | + | |
- | for the satisfaction of the wants of the members of the group. The nature of the | + | |
- | institutional nucleus is indifferent: | + | |
- | locality as with the village settlement, or political power as with | + | |
- | the seigneurial manor. Nor does the internal organization of the group matter. It may | + | |
- | be as despotic as the Roman familia or as democratic as the South Slav zadruga; as | + | |
- | large as the, great domains of the Carolingian magnates or as small as the average | + | |
- | peasant holding of Western Europe. | + | |
- | human activity cannot be detached from life in order to be stored | + | principle of householding which consists of catering for one's own household, |
- | | + | human activity cannot be detached from life in order to be stored and mobilised. |
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+ | (Aristotle/ |