review of bhaskar

[Michael Hoover]

> 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

well, the 'non-capitalist alternatives' upon which you, me, and other folks 
can wonder (and ponder) are many...

Program! Program! Getchyer Program! Can't Tell Socialism Without a Program!
cooperatives (of various kinds), councils (of various kinds), economic 
democracy, egalitarian democracy, democratic socialism, market socialism 
(various modeals) socialized markets, participatory planning, public 
ownership (various models), feasible socialism, 'thin' socialism, stake-
holding, ESOPs, profit sharing (ok, by-no-means exhaustive list really 
degenerates towards end)...

centralized state planning (or whatever 'actually existing socialism'
was) disqualified on account of past performance...

Socialism: an 'idea' whose time has not yet come?   Michael Hoover