>
> And, it seems to me that power over the tools by which
> one earns one's living (reproduces individual and species
> life) is far more important than the power to shuffle a
> little slip of paper one makes X's on once every
> couple years.... The economy *is* the democracy (or
> at least 2/3 +/- of it)! Or would Marx
> say that the superstructure determines the
> productive base?
>
I thought it was obvious that what you describe
above is not democracy, and that collective
power over the tools is not effective without
democracy. Marx prescribed a much higher level
of democracy for a socialist system than ever before,
and the mutual feedback between the base and the structure.
Eva
> [snip]
>
> Oh, well, Labor Day comes toward
> its end, but labor goes on too much for
> some, too little for others, and
> under less secure (even if no more
> ennobling...) conditions for almost all than
> before we made the past couple decades of
> progress....
>
> \brad mccormick
>
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