Gordon Fitch wrote:
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> Kelley Walker:
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> > no matter what benevolent and wonderous utopia we live in in the future, we
> > are going to have to have some measures of deservingness.
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> I don't think so. I think the choice is between freedom and
> communism, on the one hand, and war, property, class and
> slavery on the other.
I decided early in my political development that one goal we did not have to postpone to communism or even early socialism, but we could start to smash it now: We should be able to pretty much smash the concept of deservingness and the practice of rewarding it even under capitalism. This does not mean equality now; it merely means we fight against ever punishing anyone, and rewards are to be seen as nothing more than necessary bribes to get things done. That's the principle of market socialism isn't it?
No one deserves anything, good or bad.
Carrol
Carrol