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- | principle of householding | + | ====householding==== |
- | for one's own household, 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: | + | |
- | patriarchal family, 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. | + | |
- | Labour: human activity cannot be detached from life in order to be stored and mobilised. | + | production for use instead of for gain. |
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+ | principle of householding which consists of catering for one's own household, | ||
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+ | human activity cannot be detached from life in order to be stored and mobilised. | ||
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+ | (Aristotle/ |