Sorry but if there is no 'rules' how the heck can you create and enforce a never-ending stream of contracts to enforce your model of social organisation? What if others do not recognise the rule of your contracts- you gonna use violence to get your way? Maybe hire an army to do it for you (they can each be contracted to die for your individual rights- fantastic!) Or are you gonna sit down and talk it out and reach a collective agreement, like a good communist?
Well this really isn't that complicated - the enforcement will be the same as in the communist commonwealth. I could ask all the same questions about communism. What if others don't recognize your communist collective agreement - will you use violence to get your way? Maybe you will hire an army to to die for your collective rights - fantastic!
Also, what is the difference between the communism you describe and the state? It seems pretty much identical. After all the state purports to be a collective agreement. It looks like once I would join the communist commonwealth I'm screwed - I would not have any rights anymore. The majority could just keep deciding everything, just like it is doing now, and the minority would just have to take orders. This is exactly what we have right now. And this is exactly the individualist critique of communist. Individualists want to cooperate and have collective agreements too, but we always want to have veto power over all decisions and a right of secession (removing ourselves and our property from the community) if that becomes necessary. What's so bad about that?
"In conclusion, communists want a regime of collective rule, and individualists want no regime of any rules - just a contractual society"
Sorry but if there is no 'rules' how the heck can you create and enforce a never-ending stream of contracts to enforce your model of social organisation? What if others do not recognise the rule of your contracts- you gonna use violence to get your way? Maybe hire an army to do it for you (they can each be contracted to die for your individual rights- fantastic!) Or are you gonna sit down and talk it out and reach a collective agreement, like a good communist?
You need to be a part of some sort of collective social organisation or life is shit and short. If the rest of the world population just evaporated I think you'd soon realise you have never in your life been as individual as you think you are. If society did evaporate and leave you and a few other 'individualists' behind in your individualist erm... utopia?... what would you do?
"I declare as an autonomous individual, subject to no collective rule, that I own all of the seas and everythign in them- I'll give you a contract to let you fish it but you have to give me 95% of the catch"
to which another individual replies
"well I own all of the land- so go jump in the sea and stop tresspassing"
Individualism and private property being the basis for social organisation is complete and utter nonsense. The only reason you exist and survive in the first place is by the labour of others and by sharing the commons- capitalism is a shit way of sharing our labour and the commons- a society organised on contracts between selfish individuals would be shit as well. I have a contract with my boss, I have a contract with my bank, I have a contract with my landlord- hooray for contracts eh?