> 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 apologies for replying to my own post...but I see that I didn't finish the last sentence...it should have read (for what it's worth): I don't recall him pursuing the transition point explicitly but I guess it is implicit in his invoking of Marx...Michael
