>Michael wrote,
>>Besides, markets are not a lot of fun.
and Blair wrote,
>Am I just wrong, perhaps overly romanticizing, if I suggest that markets
>can be fun when they are highly contextualized, a small part of an
>extensive network of non-market relations?
As Doug Henwood might say, "fun" is hardly a transparent category.;-)
Seriously, though, this is important. Given the choice between a guaranteed
subsistence on the sole condition that I be bored stiff for the rest of my
life and a precarious existence with the potential for excitement, fun,
variety, and the unexpected, I know I'd choose the latter. Maybe that makes
me a petty bourgeois hedonist.
The problem is: late, late capitalism offers a precarious, boring existence
for some and guaranteed, simulated fun for others.
The task for socialists is not to work everything out so that the economy
runs as a perfectly functional machine. The task for socialists is to show
that autonomy is more fun than wage slavery.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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