Conscious Social Reproduction (Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4729)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Many political theorists call for the cultivation of practices which 
>nurture citizens capable of autonomous democratic self-rule in which 
>practices and authorities are understood as something we must 
>actively, consciously agree to and participate in, rather than 
>merely accept them as natural. in the name of democracy.  It is 
>claimed that a social order might possibly to transcend its own 
>naturalized arbitrariness. Amy Gutmann calls this project 'conscious 
>social reproduction' (CSR):
>
>"For a society to reproduce itself consciously it must be 
>non-repressive. It must not restrict rational consideration of 
>different ways of life. Instead it must cultivate the kind of 
>character and the kind of intellect that enables people to choose 
>rationally...among different ways of life."
>
>The politics of world construction encompass those aspects of our 
>daily practices in which we ask one another whether what we do 
>everyday reproduces the social world as we would wish it to be when 
>we think about such things as justice, progress, and the 'good 
>society.'

What do today's advocates of "conscious social reproduction" propose 
to do with the market -- the primary medium of "unconscious social 
reproduction" under capitalism?  Abolish it?  If so, how?  If not, 
why not, & what's the alternative?

Yoshie