On 11/8/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Nov 8, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> A question may be asked: what can the Bill of Rights mean in a
> socialist country where the judiciary is not independent, all lawyers
> are state employees, and the means of production, including the means
> of cultural production such as the media, are all directly or
> indirectly owned by the government?
So you see state socialism as the only possible kind? You turning
into some kind of Hayekian?
I don't have a settled view on the matter yet. I've always taken
seriously what people who think like Justin Schwartz (who used to be
here and may be still lurking) have said (if he is here, he should
jump in). One thing that I agree with Justin, without sharing his
enthusiasm for Hayek, market socialism, liberal democracy, etc., is
that Marxists have skirted this tough but important question of the
philosophy of justice under a socialist state. Dodging the question
doesn't do, imho.
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Yoshie
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