Hi again, Hugh.
Just a quick reprise on the ol' chestnut at hand:
You:
>>>Market socialism is a cowardly utopian cop-out. Anything to avoid the
>>>life-and-death confrontation with the bourgeoisie that creating the
>>>preconditions for real socialism will involve.
Me:
>>Market Socialism ain't
Hugh Rodwell wrote:
>This is clearly the stumbling block. Joanna sees a kind of transitional
>phase between bourgeois ownership of the means of production and
>proletarian ownership. As if the bourgeoisie would let go of them without
>some other force immediately taking over the reins of ownershi
Doug Henwood quotes me:
>>This is clearly the stumbling block. Joanna sees a kind of transitional
>>phase between bourgeois ownership of the means of production and
>>proletarian ownership. As if the bourgeoisie would let go of them without
>>some other force immediately taking over the reins of
Rob quotes important bits of Trotsky relating to the market. This doesn't
mean that Trotsky in any way viewed the system he is talking about as
*market socialism*. He's talking about a dictatorship of the proletariat in
which the smooth running of central planning depends to a great extent on
accu
