Anarchism / Marxism debates

Sam Pawlett rsp at uniserve.com
Tue Aug 17 12:10:45 PDT 1999


One of the points of socialist blueprints is to answer critics of socialism who argue for capitalism by saying there is no alternative to capitalism practically or theoretically, that there is an alternaive worth fighting for. Blueprints are an antidote to people who say "I agree with your criticisms, I don't like capitalism much either but what is the alternative?" or "I fear the alternative would be much worse than what we have now."

If a blueprint works in theory it must work in practice. If it doesn't work in practice there's something wrong with the theory.

Sam Pawlett



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