Bill Lear wrote:
On Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 18:52:18 (-0800) John Vertegaal writes:
Carrol Cox wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
nor did Marx say anything about central planning (that I know of).
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I think we have to go to evolutionary psychology to get a gene that
automatically screams "central planning won't work" every time they hear
the word Marx.
Carrol
Although it's far from me to defend Davidson in all of this, given the
above indicated disconnect between Marxism and central planning, how
then are Marx's ideas to be implemented economically? In other words it
would be nice to see you put your money where your mouth is. Or is it
all hot air?
I don't see how it's all that complicated. We have currently
organizations called corporations that run the economic world. Why is
it so hard to see them transformed (as, I believe, Marx envisioned)
into mechanisms controlled not by the wealthy rapacious few, but by
broader, more catholic institutions?
Bill
Like union representatives holding veto power, on boards of directors of
those "corporations that run the economic world"? If so I'd fully agree,
but I would call that social democracy in action, rather than applied
Marxism. I'm by no means convinced that a command economy, whether
planned centrally or not, is more efficient than what we presently have
in OECD countries; given of course the fair wage and financial control
policies of a social democracy.
John V
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