Carrol wrote:

> [When I posed the question I wanted not much more than a verbal definition,
> not a full exposition of the term. I was browsing through some pen-l posts
> using the term and was (mildly) curious.]

You are hard to please, man.  :)

> First of all, no "Marxist" has ever demonstrated that the problem of 
> conversion
> can be solved, and the various suggested 'solutions" are so utterly 
> cumbersome,
> so utterly foreign to the whole drive of Marx's thought, that I simply won't 
> have
> anything to do with them. Value only exist as it is expressed in money, but 
> that
> does _not_ mean that there is a intelligible linkage between the value of a
> commodity and its "price." See Fredy Perhlman's Introduction to Rubin.

There is also the very remote possibility that you are the one not getting it.

> There cannot be any argument for socialism. There is no conceivable way by
> which, operating from present knowledge, one can construct a future society
> in the head, and to speak of defending such a pig in the poke is absurd.

Uh?
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