> Louis: This question of a "transition phase" is something that gets lost > in all market socialism literature I have read. Marx was for communism. > Socialism is supposed to be a transition from capitalism to communism. when I heard David Schweickart speak last year, he acknowledged that competition, inequality, advertising, and likely unemployment would still exist in market socialism...he proceeded to invoke Marx (he referred to himself as an anti-Stalinist Marxist) - socialism is not to be identified with communism...it emerged from the capitalist womb and is marked by its origin...he then said something about socialism not being a perfect society (neither would communism be, would it?)..in any event, he argued that market socialism is a non-capitalist economic order that preserves the best of capitalism and discards the worst...I don't recall him pursuing the transition point...Michael
