>>> Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> 01/28/00 06:20PM >>>Or put it this way. The socialization of the means of
production/elimination of classes seems to connote an
absence of scarcity that does not obtain in *any* real
economy, where rationing of one sort or another is
inescapable. Nice to imagine but hard to believe.
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CB: Are you really saying that there is a in U.S. economy/society a scarcity , such that every last person could not be guaranteed food, shelter, clothing, transportation and many more basic use-values ? If you took three-quarters of the wealth of approximately the wealthiest 10% ( leaving them all still wealthy) and redistributed it to the poorest 10%, scarcity of all fundamental use-values would be eradicated, no ? What you are saying seems implausible.
CB