>>> "rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au> 08/18/99 07:47PM >>>
but a question to those advocating planning as integral to marxism/communism: doesn't this assume that the problem with capitalism is the anarchic character of its production decisions? but, is it anarchic?
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Charles: "Anarchic" is what the bourgeoisie mean by "free" enterprise. Bourgeois production is anarchic at the level of the economy as a whole. Individual enterprises have plans geared to maximizing profits and are not anarchic in aiming to generate surplus value as you say. In fact, bourgeois enterprises are dictatorships , very centralized power structures with state power backing them up directed at the production of surplus value. The corporation is not anarchic at all. You are correct. They produce based on this principle, but there is no coordination of plans of enterprises overall in society. Each company produces considering only its own bottomline. There is no oveall plan coordinating the different enterprises. This has been termed anarchy of production.
Interestingly on this thread about Anarchy referring to anti-statism, anarchy of production appears as an important issue.
CB
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surely, the aim of production in a marxist conception is surplus value -- not very anarchic there. and, without holding fast to this, isn't there the danger of transforming our versions of communism into a planned capitalism? a very real danger, i would think.
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