"Punishment"? Re: Centralization

[Doug Henwood]

And I meant to say, Justin, that this whole plan v. market debate is 
politically irrelevant to anyone living under actually existing 
capitalism. It would make little more sense to smash existing market 
relations as it did to smash the Soviet planning system. You've got 
to work with what you've got. And what we've got is markets up the 
wazoo when we could use more planning, regulation, social control. 
Imagining some utopia and trying to make it happen doesn't make much 
sense.

Doug