................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html .................................
hmm it seems that noted internet gun-nut Eric Raymond doesn't like commie science fiction, like Ken MacLeod and Iain Banks. here's Eric's essay: "Socialists to the Stars" http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_armedndangerous_archive.html#76683821 I found the reference here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blosxom.cgi One of the culture's slogans is "money is a symptom of poverty". Eric seems to have missed that, or he wouldn't have dragged up Hayek's calculation problem. The Culture novels aren't about a Marxist utopia; they're about a post-scarcity society. notes on the Culture (by Banks): http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~stefan/culture.html 62
