this is a good post, because it's specific in its critique. This is something that
might be answered, though I doubt anyone's interested in doing so.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ballard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat 8/9/2003 10:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Road to Serfdom
--- andie nachgeborenen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > JKS refers to > the well worn territory of how
> > markets are BAD<
> >
> > actually, my understanding is that (except for
> Mike
> > B), the main trend of the anti-"market socialism"
> > side was not that markets are "BAD." (Could you
> > name someone who says that markets are evil?)
>
> Right here, right now, Mike Ballard.
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Hi Jim and Andie,
Just to be clear and without religious overtone: I
don't think that markets are evil. I think that we
need to realize that we (who are not capitalists) are
the market and the producers.
I think that exchange-value needs to be stripped away
from use-value and disgarded. I think that it has now
been historically demonstrated that commodity
production/consumption undermines any attempt to
achieve socialism. I think that wage-labour has
outlived its usefulness for humankind. I think that
commodity production is inherently alienating, always
leading away from social ownership of the means of
production, self-management and towards the
continuation of hierarchical-political power over the
producers.
Best,
Mike B)
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