--- Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The same way that feudalism was abolished in a
> number of countries in
> Europe over about a century and a half.

How was feudalism "abolished"?  By decree?


> Capitalism
> might be a global
> system, but it does not operate in Cuba.

Now we have entered the realm of Jack Kirby comics.
Some sort of powerful force-field bubble that shields
Cuba from the web of social relationships that most of
the globe is enveloped in.  Fidel Castro as Reed
Richards.

> I understand
> that you are
> some kind of advocate of communism or something.

"Communism or something."

> have encountered
> ideas like yours on the aut-op-sy mailing list and
> usually in the
> context of discussions of obscure Italian
> autonomists.

Bah.  Operaismo.  ptuii! Bad enough that it is an
ascendant fad in the extra-parliamentary left.  Now
you're accusing me of being one if its adherents!

> You are of
> course welcome to your own take on things even
> though they really
> have very little in common with Marx, who hailed the
> Paris Commune
> with all its limitations.

I hail free universal higher education and health
care, with all their limitations.  So what?

> I have no idea what you mean by "the law of value".

I see.  "Communism or something" indeed.

> Even if every
> country in the world had a Cuban type system, there
> would still be
> "value creation" if you mean this in terms of the
> circulation of
> money, wages, profits and losses in state-owned
> firms, etc.

In other words, there would still be capitalism?



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