review of bhaskar

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 25 20:50:17 PDT 1999


Michael Hoover wrote:


>When I 'hear' (actually read in this instance) people 'say' (actually
>write in this instance) above, I ask whether they think that conscious
>planning of publicly owned and socially controlled means of production
>will improve upon capitalism's clumsy and costly privatized way of
>governing and correcting balance of production between main and
>subsidiary sectors of economy. I also ask whether they think that
>decommodification of labor-power holds key to transcending market and
>assuring social access to means of life.

I passionately believe all that in principle. I passionately wonder what it means in practice.

Doug



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