Re: Re: Re: M-C-M' and surplus value under capitalism and socialism (answers and questions)

[Justin Schwartz]

Oh, Jim. Just because some new needs and means of satisfying them are bad, 
that doesn't mean that most are. Are you joining Carrol's ascetic position? 
That would be most un-Marxist, by the way. Marx was a  great fan of new 
needs. Again, entrepreurship is entirely distinct from markets. Markets are 
indeed necesasry and in fact woinderful because they promote 
entrepreneurship (does that make you grit your teeth and wince?), but even 
if you think that entrepreurship can be promoted outside markers, we still 
need it, unless we want to be ascetics, fans of the simple life, etc.  --jks


>At 03:42 PM 12/1/00 +0000, you wrote:
>>An entrepreneur is someone (individual or collective) who seeks out new
>>needs and means of satisfying them. This is a role that is required in any
>>society, including a nonmarket planned socialist society....
>
>this assumes that innovation -- the seeking out of new needs and means of
>satisfying them -- is always a good thing. It's important to remember that
>the inventor of "crack" cocaine (a buzz for the poor) and Charles Ponzi
>(financial schemes) were entrepreneurs, innovators.

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