--- Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't waste my time with interrogations. If you have > your own ideas, > put them forward.
I think I am asking fair questions. I think the anti-capitalist process in Venezuela is far more dynamic than currently in Cuba, especially in terms of popular participation. I would not call either society communist. You refer to the latter as a non-capitalist social formation, and the former as not. I think it is fair to ask why you do so, on the basis of what criteria. > >In other words, there would still be capitalism? > > Do me a favor, Mr. Angelus. Don't waste my time. I > am not interested > in answering your questions If you feel I am wasting your time, feel free to ignore me. I am *not* trolling, and I think it is a very fair question. Your statement that "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." gets to the heart of the matter. I can understand if you do not want to get into a back and forth about quoting Marx and other appeals to authority. But given that for Marx, value, money, wages, profits, are essential categories of capitalism, you obviously have very different criteria for differentiating between capitalist and non-capitalist societies. Stop taking it as a personal insult just because somebody asks you to clarify what you mean. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
