maclean: You completely misunderstand the system itself.
Regarding the courts, what I proposed is not bribery because the citizens would be rewarded the same, regardless of what their vote actually was. It wouldn't matter what their vote is, they would get the reward all the same as long as they vote at all. This is not a bribe. A bribe would be if the citizens were rewarded ONLY if they found the defendant guilty (just for example), but they would not be rewarded for finding the defendant not guilty. THAT would be a bribe. You see the difference? The state doesn't care whether the citizens find the defendant guilty or not; the state only cares that the citizens vote at all. That is the difference.
As for trading, I suppose that trade would still take place, but it would not be in the form that you are most familiar. I should have mentioned this to clarify in the Manifesto, but the Manifesto is only referring to PRIVATE trade between individuals. We would only be abolishing the most familiar form of trade, where I have five chickens and you have two cows, and I give you three chickens for a cow. That would be abolished. A different form of trade would take its place. This form of trade is where every citizen trades his or her labor for the products that they want and need. Furthermore, it would all be run by the state (similar to communism). This is to say that, in exchange for your labor and contributions to your collective community, your community pays it back by providing you with the goods that you want and need. Let's return to the example of the farmer. He contributes his labor and his surplus produce to the local community, and the community rewards him by giving the farmer whatever products he requests from them.
"But how do you know the community will reward him," you ask?
To this, I will respond by pointing out that if the community doesn't reward the farmer, then he will not have the necessary resources to operate his farm. Now, that farmer is the one who feeds everyone else, so they absolutely NEED to make sure that the farm is operating, or else everybody starves! That is the incentive. And this is not a threat that the farmer actively makes. The farmer doesn't say, "Okay, I'm pissed so nobody eats today." This is just a matter of the farmer not having the resources he needs to run his farm, making him unable to produce enough food to feed everyone. Additionally, the community also needs to make sure that the farmer is happy. So in addition to the getting the resources he needs to run his farm, the farmer will also get any other products he requests, and the community will provide these goods so that he has incentive to work in the first place. So, there would really be two trade agreements happening: Firstly, the farmer would be trading his SURPLUS PRODUCE to the community in exchange for the supplies he needs to run his farm (the necessities). Secondly, the farmer would be trading his LABOR for whatever other goods he requests (his own personal needs and wants).
Allow me to illustrate the concept of this system. Suppose that you are a blacksmith, and you live in a national proletarian community. All of the other workers in the community need metal tools in order to do their own jobs. So, the local government commissions you to make tools for all of the workers who need them. What happens here is that you trade the tools you make for the supplies you need to produce them. But even having these supplies will not necessarily give you any real incentive to run your smith in the first place. So to give you a reason to work at all, the government commissions you a second time. This time, you are trading your labor for your own personal needs and wants. Does that make it clear?
So I suppose I need to revise the Manifesto, because you are correct in saying that we cannot abolish ALL trade. Rather, we are abolishing trade in its most familiar form. We would abolish private trade. This means that the only legal trading would be between an individual and the local government (or the local community if we are referring to the more anarchic version of this system). So everybody works for the government, and the government provides for everyone who works.
As a result, we would have absolutely no need for currency at all. This is also part of the national proletarian philosophy. Under this system, material goods have absolutely no value at all. Not even gold or diamonds would have value. Sure, these materials are certainly in limited supply, but what the heck do people use gold for, other than for coins (remember, no currency in my system), or jewelery? Gold only has a few practical uses, and it would only be used in a practical manner. Even when gold is used, such as in electrical wiring, it would be used in a way that benefits everyone, and it would not just be made into useless gold bars and traded by people who are pretending that it's worth something it really isn't. Diamonds also have practical uses, due to its hardness. Diamond would only be serving a practical purpose, and would not be wasted by making it into jewelery.
Now that I have cleared that all up, what is your opinion?