Neo-Utopian socialism, including Parecon

[Louis Proyect]

Justin Schwartz:
>This is trivially true, but what does it tell us? That we should just stop
>thinking past the next demonstration because whatever emerges out of the clss
>strugfgle is whatever will emerge and no amount of thinking can change that?
>Of course that is true. But there may not be class struggle, or of a kind or
>in a direction we would like, if the working class has no raeson to
suppose it
>can do better than what we have or what they had in Russia. 

I am not opposed to dreaming about the future socialism we will enjoy. Late
at night, after I've finished my second bottle of wine, I allow my thoughts
to wander. I see a world in which computers do all our work and they don't
even get reviewed to get their annual salary increase. Anybody who's been
through one of those know how humiliating it can be. It is like getting a
report card in the 6th grade and being told that you will not get an
allowance because of poor grades.

Also, children will be raised by professionals, not the bumbling idiots who
raised us. They will be instructed in sexual techniques at an early age so
as to enjoy more fulfilling lives. It will be part of an introduction into
a Bonobo chimpanzee society transferred to the human realm.

Finally, medical science will be mobilized to overcome the two most
horrible curses to modern society: flatulence and snoring. Why we can put
men on the moon and still not be able to do something about this is a
condemnation of the capitalist system. My chronic flatulence and snoring
has destroyed most of my adult relationships. Now I am all alone with my
Marxist literature and a rubber doll.

Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)