In a message dated 7/15/00 3:45:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< reform capitalists a label
-programme
to suck in the gullible and naive >>
Right. I am really a hired agent of the bourgeoisie, paid to sucker all 2000
of you Marxists, who really worry the capitalist state. I defend market
socialism this under a pen name, since the rest of my time I defend polluters
and tobacco interests against the claims of those whom they have injured.
Jesus Christ. If we don't learn that real arguments and objective facts will
not duisappear in the face of magical incantations of orthodoxy, but require
substantive responses and, if unavoidable, accommodation, we are even more
toasted toast than we now appear.
Suppose you are right that market socialism is impossible. That does not mean
that I am wrong that planned socialism is impossible, or at any rate
undesirable. Then, lacking a third alternative, socialism is impossible. So
we would then be stuck with reform capitalism, if indeed we ciuld get the
reform kind.
Critics of market socialism who wish to avoid this result have a moral and
intellectual obligation to explain how their planned alternative can avoid
the problems I have been pressing. Put up or shut up, I say.
--jks
