Joseph, thank you for your detailed criticism of the analyses by Cockshott and Cottrell and by me.
Any society has surplus labor and surplus product in one form or another. Your method of argument is to identify the surplus in any analysis and every program, then insist it is capitalist profit because it is surplus. That seems to be the key difference in your approach to analyzing what the next economy will be, now that the historical limit of capitalism is coming into rather plain view (No Rich, No Poor). A minor aside: you say that From Capitalism to Equality "envisions that competition drives each firm to grow as far as it can." Actually, such competition for market share would often lead to shrinking a market in order to take a larger share. For example, a firm could make men's razors that succeed because they work and are tremendously cheap. That beats Gillette's waste of labor designing, manufacturing, and advertising the latest techno-gizmo razor. The demand for razors being fairly inelastic, the whole market would shrink, and we would be spared Gillette's huge waste of labor. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
