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>At 11:01 PM +0000 29/6/02, Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> >I have argued here that there would more lawyers (and judges) because
>whether or not a post-cap society abolished all markets, it would have a
>lot more regulation. The politicizatiuon of many decisions we now leave to
>"automatic forces" would lead to disputes. Rules would proliferate and
>there would be more need of experts to interpret them.
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>I think you may have overlooked something. I would agree there would
>continue to be disputes in a socialist society, but there is a difference
>between disputes involving a irreconcilable clash of interests and disputes
>where there are no such.
I expect I have not overlooked that there will not be class conflict. That is is not the only kind of irreconciable conflict. Very few of the disptes I dealw ith, except perhaps the employment ones, involve that sort of issue. Rather you have issues like: I was injured. You were negligent. You should have to pay me. Or: you promised to deliver X and you didn't. Pay me. Etc. Anyway, even where there are no such clashes of interests, there will still be a proliferation of rules governing rather technical and specialized subjects, and these will require specilaized interpreters.
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>"Courts" of a kind may still be necessary to determine facts as part of
>such a process, but in the absence of irreconcilable clashes of interests,
>it is possible for people and groups to resolve their differences by mutual
>agreement. With some help perhaps. Because it is no longer a win/lose
>dichotomy.
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Sure there are winners and losers. We need a waste disposal plant. No one wants it located near them. The losers have to put it with it. We have to choose between more schools and better hospitals. The losers are the ones who back the losing option. An inefficient enterprise has to be shut down. The workers get other jobs, but goi through serious dislocation. Don't be naive.
jks
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