If I've understood it correctly usufruct means you own the things you use whilst you use them. So for example in housing - a person owns their house whilst they are using it by living in it. Should they stop living in it, such as moving away to another house, then they no longer own that house which now reverts back to the community for the next person who needs to live there. The idea is somewhere between capitalist ideas of private property and communist ideas of collective property. The idea makes things such as 'rent' illegitimate as the landlord does not ethically 'own' the property that they are not living in themselves. I really like the way you said how there's a difference between jingoistic nationalism and attachment to and affection towards where you live. I totally agree. I think it's normal to love where you live, the nature, the cultural aspects you've been raised with that form part of who you are and how that is totally different from the myth-making, xenophobic nationalism that the right pedals. I recently saw a video of the mass anti-government protests in Lebanon from a few years ago, and there too the streets were filled with Lebanese flags being carried by young progressive people demanding a fairer future, which I found quite moving. I think we should resist ceding anything of value to the right and far right out of fear of being associated with them - that's how were losing important words like liberty and freedom which are now fast becoming associated with the right and twisted to mean something ugly.
If I've understood it correctly usufruct means you own the things you use whilst you use them. So for example in housing - a person owns their house whilst they are using it by living in it. Should they stop living in it, such as moving away to another house, then they no longer own that house which now reverts back to the community for the next person who needs to live there. The idea is somewhere between capitalist ideas of private property and communist ideas of collective property. The idea makes things such as 'rent' illegitimate as the landlord does not ethically 'own' the property that they are not living in themselves.
I really like the way you said how there's a difference between jingoistic nationalism and attachment to and affection towards where you live. I totally agree. I think it's normal to love where you live, the nature, the cultural aspects you've been raised with that form part of who you are and how that is totally different from the myth-making, xenophobic nationalism that the right pedals. I recently saw a video of the mass anti-government protests in Lebanon from a few years ago, and there too the streets were filled with Lebanese flags being carried by young progressive people demanding a fairer future, which I found quite moving. I think we should resist ceding anything of value to the right and far right out of fear of being associated with them - that's how were losing important words like liberty and freedom which are now fast becoming associated with the right and twisted to mean something ugly.