Science, Science & Marxism

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>
>And what about enterprises
>>that are
>>lucky, clever or dedicated enough to achieve inordinate success -- are
>>their
>>above-average returns claimed as a public good, or are they retained for
>>the
>>particular benefit of the management/workers who achieved them?
>
>The latter. It's called an incentive. Of course that's a democratic 
>decision
>to be made by the legislature, how to set the tax rates, but if all the
>fruits of luck or talent are taxed away, you might as well not have a 
>market
>system.

OTOH, unless incentives are held well in check, self-reinforcing imbalances 
of social power could set in at an early stage, I believe.


>I think socialists have to return to Marx's perspective on this and give up
>on the bourgeois idea that equality of incomes is important. Marx didn't
>think so. He was right, too.
>
>jks

I'm of the mind that a little inequality is like a little pregnancy.  
Inequality feeds on itself -- that's certainly been the experience of the 
United States over the last two decades and more.

Carl

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