JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 98-11-27 02:46:38 EST, you write:
>
> << Brus and Laski
> also admit the influence of Hayek in their book "From Marx to the
> Market". They ,though, still refer to themselves as Marxists and hold
> out hope for some form of market socialism based on the E.European
> experience which they analyze in their book(s) >>
>
> That wasn't my reading of Brus & Laski. I thought theyw ere out & out
> Friedmanites now.
>
> I myself call myself a Hayekian Marxist, to the confusion of right and left.
> --jks
It could be that Brus and Laski are now Friedmanites. I was referring to their position in the book "From Marx to the Market" which was published what? 5 years ago? A Hayekian Marxist eh? Well I'm a capitalist communist. So you accept a Marxist critique of capitalism and a Hayekian critique of planning? It surprises me that someone as philosophically sophisticated as you are, would accept Hayek's subjectivist epistemology. In my very limited knowledge of Hayek, it seemed that Hayek's critique of planning depended on his epistemology. His critique of planning would fall if his epistemology was refuted. Or am I way off the mark?