"Central "Planning is really Holistic Planning.

[Thomas Seay]

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:

> And you don't see that as a problem? If everyone is
> responsible, is 
> anyone? No division of labor in your utopia? No
> mechanism of 
> authority with accountability? When I hear things
> like this, I think 
> of Nancy Folbre's critique of the Albert/Hahnel
> parecon model - it's 
> a vision of life as one long student council
> meeting.

Although I tend to support the notion of "direct
democracy" this is an issue, isn't it? Does direct
democracy mean that, on the one hand, we would reduce
the hours of necessary labor, only to fill the
remaining hours up with "meetings"?  I dont know, but
it is a question worth considering.

Anyone have any thoughts on this question?

Thomas


=====
"The tradition of all the dead generations
 weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"

-Karl Marx

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