I don't know. The Communists seem to be doing just fine at the Metropolitan Opera and around the country's orchestras. There are more Soviet artists distributed then you can shake a stick at. The also produced them. The same thing was true at IBM. So these two guys were racing across the desert. One was Israeli and the other was an Arab chasing him armed to the teeth and wanting to kill the Israeli. The Arab began to fall behind and finally stopped. The Israeli stopped and looked back then circled around and asked what was wrong.. The Arab said he was out of gas. The Israeli looked and asked: "Would you like to buy some?"
This was told to me by a Russian Jewish lady opera coach as we were talking about the way that the Russians were taking American jobs in America. She thought it explained what I was discussing. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:14 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Keynes again from 1933 The tragic irony is that communism solved the distribution problem but couldn't solve the production problem while the reverse holds true for capitalism: production problem solved but can't solve the distribution problem. arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of michael gurstein Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:53 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Keynes again from 1933 It seems that as a civilization we have resolved the production problems but can't figure out how to make the distribution work in any decent and humane way. M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:29 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] Keynes again from 1933 The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war(one) is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. In short we dislike it, and we are beginning to despise it. But when we wonder what to put in its place, we are extremely perplexed. * <http://www.panarchy.org/keynes/national.1933.html> National self-sufficiency (1933) Section 3, republished in Collected Writings Vol. 11 (1982).
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