>Use of word *little* as ironic editorializing? My post didn't address
>any of the above as I was writing to a specific point (not to mention
>limits of e-mail). Any one who has read my posts (and I don't send
>that many) knows that I am consistently attentive to both political
>democracy and worker control (though not in post to which you
>responded).
>
>As for alienation being *something that socialists should care a lot
>about*, I have a hunch if we looked at my posts to e-lists over the
>years (and I first subbed in 1993), we'd find that the proportion
>commenting on alienation and related topics is higher than most. I'm
>one of those folks who doesn't buy the Althusserian epistemological
>break between the young and mature Marx.
Michael, I wasn't accusing you of any of those things. I read all your posts attentively & with frequent admiration. I'm just trying to call attention to the relations between "planning" and political hierarchy and coercion. I haven't made my mind up on this stuff - I'm just thinking out loud and playing the role of Blake's "idiot questioner."
Doug