planning (and the side issue of nazism) - was lots of other silly headers

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Angela:
>never said nazism was characterised by an over-ambitious statism;
>rather, i pointed to the historic connection between biology and
>economics in the nazi state. if you raise the notion of socialist
>planning as the planning for the satisfaction of biological givens, as
>yoshie did, then to me, you'd have to address precisely this history of
>that synthesis and how that is to be distingushed from the notion of
>socialist planning in the aforementioned terms.

Socialist planning must satisfy needs arising from biological givens, among
other needs and desires (otherwise it will be a disappointment, nay, even a
tragedy --  e.g. socialism with inadequate food), but that doesn't make
socialist planning the same as fascist planning.  In fact, I have argued
against population control discourse in many a post on abortion and
reproductive rights here and elsewhere.  Goods and services ought to be
abundant & socially provided for, but many (most?) of them had better be
made use of individually.

Further, I agree with liberal feminists like Katha (and including
anticommunist Slavenka Drakulic) that socialism without tampons (a need
arising from a biological given and subsequently developed historically)
pointed to inadequate regard for women's needs and desires and lack of
democratic participation of women in socialism beyond tokenism.

Yoshie