Report from Z Media Institute 98 (fwd)

[Peter Kilander]

I've read both of the Parecon books and am holding judgement.  Justin is
right in that it depends heavily on computers. Hahnel and Albert want to
minimize the power of "coordinators" through democratic planning. I guess it
shouldn't, but it seems odd to me to see leftists complain about too much
democracy. Obviously, there's a trade off between democratic planning and
efficiency, but what do we mean exactly when we say "efficiency"? Maybe the
trick is to steer between the Charybdis of endless meetings and the problems
of accurate data collection and analysis and the Scylla of Leninism.